Four Republican leaders at the House Energy & Commerce Committee want investigators to take a look at Oregon's state-based health insurance exchange.

The organizers of Cover Oregon received $304 million in federal grants and $160 million in state funding, but exchange still doesn't have a working enrollment website.

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., the chairman of the committee, and the chairmen of the communications, oversight and health subcommittees, have asked U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro to have his agency — the U.S. Government Accountability Office — review how the Oregon exchange used its money.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.