{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=adcf6bcc-67ce-4c47-9cfc-179d9ac99770", "Hatch Joins Efforts To Delay Obamacare Until Health Law's Websites Are Functional", "2013-10-29", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Orrin Hatch", "H000338", "www.hatch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, has cosponsored legislation introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) today that will delay the individual mandate under ObamaCare until six months after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) certifies that the exchange website is fully functional. \n\u201cThe rollout of the Obamacare exchanges has been nothing short of a disaster,\u201d Hatch said. \u201cRepublicans have warned that the Obamacare exchanges weren\u2019t ready for prime time, and this legislation is a common-sense step forward while the mess with the exchanges is straightened out. The Administration is now saying the law\u2019s websites won\u2019t be ready until Thanksgiving, which means that Utah families and Americans everywhere will have only a few weeks to make an extremely complicate decision of picking the best health care plan that matches their needs. Delaying the mandate just makes sense, and if Democrats are truly interested in working to address the American people's concerns they\u2019ll support this bill.\u201d\r\nThe \u201cDelay Until Fully Functional Act\u201d would delay the ObamaCare individual mandate and require that GAO study and report to Congress on the websites within 30 days. If the GAO study says the American Health Benefit Exchange is not fully functional and operating in a manner consistent with the role envisioned for exchanges under this act, GAO will do subsequent studies and reports every 60 days until the Comptroller General determines that the exchanges are fully functional. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) inspector general would then issue a certification based on the results of the GAO report. The individual mandate would be reinstated 6 months after the HHS inspector general certification.\r\nThe full text of the bill is available here.", 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://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=adcf6bcc-67ce-4c47-9cfc-179d9ac99770"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.320936182513833, "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"}