{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://sanford.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/sanfords-statement-on-testimony-of-hhs-secretary-sebelius-on-aca", "Sanford's Statement on Testimony of HHS Secretary Sebelius on ACA Exchanges", "2013-10-30", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "SC", "Mark Sanford", "S000051", "sanford.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "STATEMENT ON TESTIMONY OF HHS SECRETARY SEBELIUS ON AFFORDABLE CARE ACT EXCHANGES\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0Today, Representative Mark Sanford (SC-1) released the following statement regarding the testimony of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius\u2019s testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. \u201cThis morning\u2019s testimony from Secretary Sebelius confirmed for me that this administration is determined to meet their own political goals no matter how it harms Americans. It\u2019s clear from this morning that the Affordable Care Act exchanges were in no way ready for primetime. The Secretary\u2019s admission that the websites didn\u2019t have enough testing and simply weren\u2019t ready seems to fit a pattern we\u2019ve seen from this administration,\u201d said Sanford. \u201cThe website was rushed to meet self-imposed political deadlines, and the White House and the executive branch knowingly pushed what their own tests indicated was a flawed product.\u201d \u201cThe exchanges are just one of many failures and shortcomings in the Affordable Care Act,\u201d added Sanford. \u201cAll across the Lowcountry, people are facing higher premiums, losing the insurance plans they were promised they could keep, and watching as the administration struggles to answer questions about why they pushed so hard to launch a website and enforce a mandate when they knew it wasn\u2019t ready.\u201d\n\u00a0\n###", 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": ["http://sanford.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/sanfords-statement-on-testimony-of-hhs-secretary-sebelius-on-aca"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9023768361657858, "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"}