Lankford: Obama’s Assertions Of ‘Most Transparent Administration Ever’ Fail To Match Reality

lankfordcapCongressman James Lankford released the following statement following the House Oversight Committee’s full Committee hearing, entitled, “Examining ObamaCare Transparency Failures,” which included former Obama Administration advisor Dr. Jonathan Gruber and CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner as witnesses:

“Despite the President’s assertions that his would be the ‘most transparent administration ever,’ between Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and numerous opaque EPA regulatory processes, the American people are rightly frustrated with the way the White House has handled and communicated these issues. Dr. Gruber’s comments about hiding the truth of Obamacare in a six-foot-high stack of onerous legislative and regulatory text are clear proof of this Administration’s malpractice. The implementation has been equally murky. Ms. Tavenner and CMS have failed to give accurate enrollment numbers to the American people and even inflated at least one set with enrollees in the dental plan. These are not the actions of an open-book administration seeking to be honest with American taxpayers about where their hard-earned tax dollars are spent.

“The people of central Oklahoma sent me to Washington to get answers and work on solutions to the problems we face as a nation. Proper congressional oversight is one tool we can use to hold agency officials accountable for their actions and prevent failures in the future.”


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  1. Dick Grace, 11 December, 2014

    Mr. Lankford is all talk and no action.

  2. Kevin Batts, 11 December, 2014

    Wow Grace you took the words out of my mouth.

  3. Vernon Woods, 12 December, 2014

    Jason Murphey, I know of a possible job for you two years from now.

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