Traditionally effective prods to action are often less so in the divided, crisis-managed Congress.

Probing whether the White House shares blame for health care website woes, the House's chief investigator is delving into technical issues behind the dysfunctional rollout of HealthCare.gov.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday the administration's health care website needed a couple of hundred fixes when it went online more than a month ago and conceded, "we're not there yet" in making all needed repairs.

Members of Congress are governing themselves under President Barack Obama's signature law, which means they have great leeway in how to apply it to their own staffs.

Defending President Barack Obama's much-maligned health care overhaul in Congress, his top health official was confronted Wednesday with a government memo raising new security concerns about the trouble-prone website that consumers are using to enroll.

President Obama's top health care official told Congress on Wednesday that she's responsible for the "debacle" of cascading technical problems plaguing HealthCare.gov.

A growing number Democrats in Congress now want to extend the enrollment deadline, and one senator wants to delay the penalty for not complying.

Stunt or principled stand, Sen. Ted Cruz's talkathon against Obamacare scored 21 hours of cable television time to describe the president's signature law in the most conservative terms.