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Working so hard to improve the website that you, and i quote, spent the first week of october sleeping on the floor of his office as he tried to help get healthcare.gov off the mat. is that right? >> yes, sir. >> well your reputation certainly proceeds you. unfortunately however, last week, chairman issa appeared on fox news and accused you and other political appointees engaging in a quote, pattern of interference and false statements related to this site, end of quote. thats a serious attack a...

That is what the congressman is trying to get to the heart of it. he wants to know if is it was a political decision made to prevent letting people log on anonymo anonymously. that is one of the most heated question and there is a lot of talk surrounding that. >> one of the main headlines was the washington post and the promise of having the system working by the end of november which was the newly created and delayed deadline is unlikely. they are unlikely to meet that deadline. the big contrac...

Addressed with the site in terms of its performance and in terms of its stability and in terms of its functionality. there are progressive efforts to make sure it can do that and getting better and better each work with the tremendous team of led by jeffrey zeints and miss tavenner im a small part. each points along the way i will answer a question and tell you what i know to the best of my ability and best of my understanding and that is what i continue to do as my understanding gets better and...

Health insurance because of the law and trying to get on a site that will not work. ending up with a fraudster site and getting ripped off. is that not the saddest thing you can think of? martha: it is. cry me a river. this is a very, very, sad situation for a lot of folks. were waiting, now, chris to hear from todd park and hear from henry chao, the i.t. guys in charge of the whole thing for the white house. the gentleman will be testifying in a few minutes. well get back to him when we get to ...

Situation -- >> mr. park,. >> yes, sir. >> i want to treat you with respect. >> yes, sir. >> ive got very few minutes. >> yes, sir. you gave that number, the number was erroneous. it couldnt handle 60,000 simultaneous users. document that is will be placed in record that show on september 30th, the system crashed with 1100. the goal was to get to 10,000. would you like to tell us for the record, based on your working on this, what number the american people could simultaneously be on the site wo...

Anonymous shopper function, did not work. now weve seen a document with cms on it dated in the last day, september 25th that said it passed that test. is it that you did not know it had passed test when you made your statement saying that it failed? >> well, first of all, chairman, i would like to say that after working with your staff for eight, nine hours, as well as the minority staff, going through this transcribed interview, ive not had a chance to look at this, so this is the first time im...

Yours that you would be pulled away from the website issues to prepare for testifying here today? >> so if there had been a question of, i will testify, just a question of when. it had been the hope of me and the team working to fix the site that i could continue to focus intensely helping to fix the site this month and come back in a few weeks. that being said i understand that the chairman came to a different decision. i respect that decision. im the son of immigrants from korea. i have incred...

Secure the site is today? >> thats the whole point of this hearing. well hear from department of homeland security officials. shell secure the.gov space and also from web sites of professionals. but sebelius and hhs rank nearly at the bottom of cyber security. they are the second worst agency in term of their rankings in cyber-security and its 50% rate. thats a great concern when you look at what type of information is being stored in the exchanges with this website. its a lot of personal data. ...

Okay. >> mr. park, youre going back to something i hoped you wouldnt do, maybe gao can answer, volume on day one was not what it expected on day one, was it? the volume on day one if everyone is going on the site to see what it is all about, mr. browner? >> i dont have those specifics, mr. chairman but i will say this. these volumes, you go for examples on irs, e volume and people filing taxes on 11th hour, this is the same problem that irs deals with on annual basis. what you need to do is appr...

Have found out our employer either cannot afford or cannot receive the healthcare you have grown accustomed to. the specific reason we are here today is a narrow part of this committees oversight and legislative authority. its in fact to examine the failures of what should have been an i.t. success story. nearly $600 million, 3 1/2 years, is larger than kayak ever dreamed of having to set up their web sites. its larger than e-bay spent in the first many years of a much more complex site that auc...