bateman, we know how great a job you're doing. would you please wrap up? >> yes. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today. >> thank you. mr. park. >> good morning, members of the committee. thauj for inviting me to testify today on the administration's on going effort to deliver on the prosays of the affordable care act. as u.s. chief technology officer housed at the office of science and technology policy, i serve as an advisor of the white house on a broad range of technology priorities ranging on how e v innovation can grow the economy to spur innovation to how the power of technology can be harnessed to improve health care, disaster relief, fight human trafficking and more. in this work, i try to bring the sensibleties of the tech entrepreneur that i've been for most of my professional live. as you know, october 1st was the launch of the new healthcare.gov where people without health insurance can go to get affordable coverage. unfortunately, the experience on healthcare.gov has been highly frustrating for many americans. needs problems are unacceptable.

bateman. why did we have to open up on october 1st? but the question i would ask here, mitre is responsible for conducting the security control assessment for the federal exchange. is that correct? >> that's my understanding. >> according to mitre, the final security assessment for the federal exchange occurred from late august through mid september. is that your understanding? >> it is. mr. baitman, to the best of your knowledge, did mitre conduct a complete security test of the federal marketplace? >> i can't answer that. i don't have disability end to it. >> i'd like a document put that that deals with this. if you see there, ffm, the website, the marketplace complete percentage, 66% complete. that's it. 66%. this document was obtained by committee we have in place. let me ask this question, mr. baitman. is it a problem that mitre wasn't fully able to test one third of the exchange? >> i can't answer that. this prokt was run and managed by cms. they're responsible for the security. >> in the security control assessment dated october

bateman and mr. chow who leave the gao out of it because we will probably ask them help us find out. but none of you today can tell us who failed to do their job and as a result, the american people lost a month of any effective, real ability to sign up. this website was dead at launch for all practical purposes and i am sorry, but you have -- you can give me all the numbers you want. six on the first day and 240 on the second day, when millions of americans were trying to make this work. we may disagree on obamacare, -- we do not disagree a disagree that that was unacceptable. understand,fail to you and mr. bateman, and all of you in the administration who are allowed to go to those meetings, mr. palmer would tell you best practices should be a lot more like it is that toyota company. or honda. line, oneduction person who sees a bad car coming down, is allowed to stop the production line. in this case, a really defective, something that would make -- launched on october 1, and nobody said here today

my name is frank bateman. i'm the deputy assistant secretary for the chief information officer at the u.s. department of health and human services. i am lease to join you here today. the department of health and human services is the united states government principal agency for protecting the health of all americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who were least able to help them selves. leading the development and imitation of enterprise level information technology framework. hhs is committed to the effective and efficient management of our resources, in support of our public health , human services program, and the health system. the hhs oh cio is responsible for policy framework for i.t.. including such areas as enterprise architecture, capital planning, records management, accessibility, and security and privacy. arenaample, the security has a healthy framework. it encompasses the federal formation security management act of 2002, omb directives, and the national guidance on

our next guest has a perfect strategy he will squeeze out some yield we have randy bateman and a foxinal were you ever scared to come on with me? >> no. it sounds like you are a woman scorned. [laughter] they will be the hot ipo with a cold stock or the cold ipo or a hot stock but it looks like it will be the of former. liz: due may talk to the one who brought you to the defense refers to put twitter on the air in 2008. now let's get this straight straight, randy there is a bigger concern with the stock that could be fly by night but when the fed decides to do taper it is now expected just today we have the gdp number better than expected now people are worried but is there a way to protect your portfolio and grow it at the same time ? >> absolutely. what of the things that have driven the market causing the expansion is the of llck of alternatives of the equity market will still be viable. one of the tools we use is a combination of good equity analysis together with options strategies. collect a dividend in early september but it by the stock and then write the covered calls then t

. >> vanessa bateman is in her tdot office when she gets a report of the rock slide. >> at that point it was clear it was an emergency. they had a rock in the road. the road is closed, everyone gets excited. okay, what is going on. >> it takes bateman about three hours to drive to the site. >> the emergency response folks were there. the county maintenance guys were there and then a construction company had been called to bring in the equipment that would be needed to break up the rocks that were on the road, get them off. there was one larger rock, and when she arrives there are about 30 people working to get the road onlied. skba there was a news crew. >> we saw somebody from tdot show up. u u this young lady got out, and she walked up and looked at me and walked on past, and she glanced at the boulder and then she went over and talked to mr. jones. >> bill mitchell, a 30-year news veteran has covered many rock slides during his career, but none this big. >> and then she came back over and she said, why don't you guys move back a little ways. she said, i'm hearing things up on that

frank bateman is the chief director at health and human services. mr. todd park is the chief technology aufrgs ot united states. mr. steve van rokel is the chief information officer of the united states. okay. and pursuant to the rules, as many of you have not been here before to see, i'd ask that you all rise to take a sworn oath. please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. let the record -- please be seated. >>> let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. this is a large panel and it's sfoing to be a long day. i suspect witnesses will be asked questions by both sides of the aisle. i would ask that you adhere to the time clock and come to a halt as quickly as possible when it hits red. please, understand, yellow is not an opportunity to start a new subject. it is an opportunity to wrap up. and with that, we'll go to our distinguished guests. >> we appreciate the opportunity to help uncover complex it ak wi

the two sections bateman of korean women which soaked in a book or two and tartare a dispute over the top target. park says he's hoping a peaceful and cooperative region about what we want to push forward cooperation between your asia and pacific region. this requires me something problems of history and terror targets in the us japan and its neighbors though china japan territory or rowing issues of the perceptions of the stupid japan and south korea which forced the postponement of the freeway cooperation summit. defence minister of foreign affairs to pick up and doesn't need it anymore oh the and stapling of korean women for its troops to one or two as teaching teens had told the south korean decrying the content over that preston park also stressed that disputing northeast asia must be restocked peacefully. she never involved may lead to a means to the ict. japan's air self defense forces have been authorized to use the un vehicles to transport japanese and foreign nationals imagines the situations the wall. i don't make this approved a revised school today and now the sds can car

bateman? >> i was aware that various nodules part of the system wasn't working. >> anything on security, mr. park, operational and security? >> not as i recall, no. >> ok. >> i am aware that any system, private sector or public sector -- >> what about the security? >> any system needs constant -- security needs to be constantly addressed. >>> did you review a development prepared by miter -- it hasn't been released yet -- security testing and capability? >> no, i did not see this. >> september 23 that ighlighted some of the issues. >> ok. first of all, it looks like political decisions got us into this straight. chao, that d, mr. you needed to make decisions and the construct, right? >> correct. >> and there were regulationes that were not imposed, and i think you also intimated that some of them were stopped by the white house prior to the election. >> no, i did not. >> mr. chao, you said there was a significant problem and pressing time frame and actually the white house pressured to stop th

bateman, did you? >> i did not. >> mr. vanroekel? >> not only do i not know that happened, i don't know, and i did not. >> when mr. jordan asked you some questions, one of the things that he asked you was about your involvement in meetings. he was specifically referencing mrs. -- or ms. -- i'm looking for the name. well, let me just ask you this. were any of the meetings that you attended at the white house? >> it depends how you describe the white house. >> the treasury, old executive office building and new -- >> i didn't know if you talked physical or organizational. >> organizational. >> i work at an agency that is part of the executive office of the president. so every meeting i have is considered sort of part of 9 -- of that organization. >> was ms. lambeau present? >> as i answered in my question to mr. jordan, one or two meetings, yes. >> what were those meetings about? >> they were asking actually my private sector advice on demand generation and marketing to young people. how to use social media to reach out to uninsured am

. >> no, we work closely with frank bateman's security operations at the department level as well as extensive computer -- >> you stated earlier in your testimony that the anonymous shopping feature, which i would love to see -- i don't even think it's in place now -- but it was disabled before the election, and we can talk about political purposes or not. >> i think the gentleman was saying before the october 1st launch. >> yes, but it's deleted. why wasn't the october 1st deadline pushed back because it didn't work? why wasn't the whole thing delayed? when you delayed the anonymous shopping part, the part we all feel most safe about, going in and finding out what it cost without revealing personal information, why did you delete that when you knew the whole thing wouldn't work? >> i think it was a tradeoff of knowing what something would be put in production. >> i have to say with my lack of trust in the federal government now, i am loathe to put my personal information in and would love to shop anonymously like i did in some of the private companies in texas. i don't think you hav

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frank bateman is the chief information officer at the department of health and human services. mr.dd park is the chief technology officer of the united states. mr. steve vanroekel is the chief information officer of the united states. and pursuant to the rules, as many of you will see, i was asked that you rise to take a sworn oath. please raise your right hands. do you swear or from the testimony you are about to give away the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all answered in the affirmative. this is a large panel. it is going to be a long day. witnesses will be asked questions by both sides of the aisle. i would ask that since your opening statements are placed in the record verbatim that you adhere to the time clock and come to a halt as quickly as possible when it's red. yellow is not an opportunity to start a new subject. it is an opportunity to wrap up. with that, we will go to our distinguished guests. >> we appreciate the opportunity to testify. in july, i testified before the sub committee on failed i.t. projects and other troubled