Outgoing Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius is now refusing to testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, a Senate aide told The Daily Caller Tuesday.

Sebelius had originally been set to testify before the subcommittee about the department’s 2015 $70 billion budget request on April 2.

According to another aide, however, several weeks after confirming the hearing date, she requested a date switch with the National Institutes of Health budget hearing on May 7. The committee accommodated her request.

Now, after announcing her resignation on April 11, she is refusing to testify according to the two aides, even though she is still the sitting secretary — remaining at the post until her successor, OMB Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell is confirmed.

“It appears that Sec. Sebelius has unilaterally decided that she is no longer accountable to Congress,” the first aide said.

The other aide explained that HHS has not given the committee any reason for her refusal and that Sebelius has not suggested anyone to testify in her place.

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Who gives a shit. Look at who is on the committee and then tell me that anything other than ass kissing would take place....


Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Chairman Tom Harkin

Ranking Member Jerry Moran

Democrat

Patty Murray Washington
Mary L. Landrieu Louisiana
Richard J. Durbin Illinois
Jack Reed Rhode Island
Mark Pryor Arkansas
Barbara Mikulski Maryland
Jon Tester Montana
Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire
Jeff Merkley Oregon


Republican

Thad Cochran Mississippi
Richard C. Shelby Alabama
Lamar Alexander Tennessee
Lindsey Graham South Carolina
Mark Kirk Illinois
Mike Johanns Nebraska
John Boozman Arkansas