The Obama Administration's chief technology officer, Todd Park, has received a subpoena to testify at a Congressional hearing this week about the failures of Healthcare.gov, according to a Reuters report.
The White House has denounced the subpoena, saying Mr. Park had already agreed to go before Congress in December, and the timing of the hearing would interfere with Mr. Park's job. "We had hoped the committee would work with us to find an alternative date to give Todd time to focus on the immediate task at hand: getting the website fixed," said Rick Weiss, a spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology, in the report.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who issued the subpoena, said Mr. Park was the only official "unwilling to appear voluntarily" at the hearing, and pointed to an interview Mr. Park gave to The New York Times last month as evidence he can afford to take time off to discuss the website, according to the report.
The hearing is scheduled for Nov. 13.
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