frank palloone and joe barton going at each other, calling there s a monkey court. are these guys going after each other, scoring political points, are we learning anything about what went wrong here? reporter: i think it s a bit of both. they were talking about private circumstance monkey court business. in the big picture, you ve got 50-some odd companies who are contractors, only a few represented on the hill. one company, cgi, blames another company, qssi, for the big problem. qssi blames the federal government, the centers of medicare and medicaid services for putting in a late change that created a bottleneck. this is clearly a political issue. also very technical. and it s something a congressional committee, as a whole, isn t equipped to handle very well without a ton of staff to work on. so you get a lot of people veering off, asking policy questions to companies here to talk about a technology