House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) wants MIT professor Jonathan Gruber to testify in December following the revelation of his comments on the “lack of transparency” in passing Obamacare.
Issa sent a letter Thursday to Gruber, asking him to testify on Dec. 9 at a hearing to “examine the transparency failures related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.”
The full letter is below.
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Can a private citizen be compelled to testify before congress? Can Gruber ignore the request without being sent to prison by Issa? Maybe Gruber deserves this?
Isn’t Issa out of the picture when the new Congress convenes in January?
Weapons of mass distraction.
Mr. Gruber, on September 11, 2012, were you in Libya?
Of course he can be compelled. Congress can issue subpoenas and a court can enforce them. I wouldn’t advise him to resist. Just show up, take his lumps, prepare testimony that makes them look foolish, stand up for himself and refuse to be bullied during the hearing, call out their falsehoods when GOPers/Teatrolls try to use their allotted question time as their own means of “testifying” with lengthy diatribes designed to pack the congressional record, and then call it a day with a glass of Knob Creek and a spliff.