Gruberama fallout: "What are you hiding, Mr. Park?"

Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, opened the hearing by accusing Park and the White House of avoiding congressional scrutiny.

“I find your and the White House’s lack of transparency intolerable,” Broun told Park, “and an obstruction of this committee’s role of conducting oversight.”

“That begs the question: what are you hiding, Mr. Park? I have some ideas. Perhaps it is because you knew there were serious problems with HealthCare.gov prior to the launch but you did not communicate them up the chain during your meetings with the president,” Broun said.

Park stated repeatedly that while he was in contact with project managers for HealthCare.gov within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he was not responsible for the site’s functionality.

“I was not a project manager who was managing and executing the day-to-day operational work of building HealthCare.gov,” Park told lawmakers. “I didn’t have the kind of comprehensive, detailed, deep knowledge of that project that a manager would have.”