Greg Walden: “I thank the gentleman for bringing his amendment as well. He is a distinguished Member of our U.S. House of…”

“I thank the gentleman for bringing his amendment as well. He is a distinguished Member of our U.S. House of Representatives and an engineer, and we appreciate his intellectual horsepower on this issue. I was thinking, as he was talking about having the GAO have to do an audit to figure out the best time for routine maintenance to provide the least disruption to consumers, this is what happens when you have a government-run system. You have to have your independent auditors figure out how the system can keep current and not disrupt consumers. I was thinking that we don't have too many amendments that say let's have GAO audit Amazon's website to find out the best times to deal with consumers or your local whatever you go to for your hotels or your rental cars. Nobody is saying, hey, you have to have GAO, a government entity, figure out the best time or worst time to disrupt consumers on the Avis website or Enterprise or whatever. But we have to here, which is a government-run system with basically one website. We all know and we all lived through what happened with the initial rollout with this website, so, Mr. Chairman, to my friend from Illinois' point, it is important that we give the consumers the best possible experience when they are trying to sign up because we have all had to deal with it. In its initial days, man, it was a mess. I remember all those problems. We did hearings and oversight hearings in the Energy and Commerce Committee on it. Mr.…”