{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20140221024432/http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/press/louisiana-delegation-pushes-for-transparency-in-healthcaregov", "Louisiana Delegation Pushes For Transparency in HealthCare.gov", "2013-10-23", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "LA", "David Vitter", "V000127", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Louisiana Delegation Pushes For Transparency in HealthCare.gov\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tWednesday, October 23, 2013\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Senator David Vitter (R-La.) sent a letter with Reps. Bill Cassidy, Steve Scalise, John Fleming and Charles Boustany to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The letter insists that Secretary Sebelius answer whether HealthCare.gov was tested before its launch and how many Louisianans and Americans have enrolled into Obamacare.\n\u201cThe Administration needs to quit hiding behind obtuse excuses about the Obamacare roll out and own what they're forcing Louisianians to use. Folks are forced to accept skyrocketing insurance costs, loss of employer coverage, and could get fined for not purchasing Obamacare because the Administration can't get the enrollment website working,\" Vitter said.\n\u201cLouisiana families would like to know why this site, costing millions upon millions of tax dollars, doesn\u2019t work. This is the minimum level of transparency that should be given. It\u2019s not too much to ask for,\u201d said Cassidy.\n\u201cPresident Obama\u2019s health care website is not a glitch, it is a $500+ million national embarrassment and top agency officials should be held accountable for this failure that they had three years to prepare for. Louisiana families deserve and demand transparency from the President into the cause of the Obamacare train wreck, and I look forward to the Administration\u2019s swift response to these critical questions,\u201d said Scalise.\n\u201cIf the CEO of a major company had three-and-a-half years to prepare for the launch of the company's signature product, and it launched with a resounding thud, that CEO would surely be fired. Secretary Sebelius must explain how hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars could be spent on a website that is an utter failure, and possibly even a security risk. She had to know that benchmarks were not met and that the launch would not go well. Before the administration pours millions more into the bottomless pit of its so-called tech surge, the Secretary needs to face the American people and explain how and why this mess happened,\u201d said Fleming.\nA copy of the letter sent to Secretary Sebelius is attached.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20140221024432/http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/press/louisiana-delegation-pushes-for-transparency-in-healthcaregov"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.542224083095789, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}