WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior government official declined to say Tuesday if the administration will support legislation to fulfill President Barack Obama's oft-stated promise that anyone who likes their health care plan will be able to keep it under the nation's new law.

Appearing before a Senate committee, Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also said the government's health care web site has improved since its widely panned launch a month ago, and is still improving.

"Users can now successfully create an account and continue through the full application and enrollment process," she said. We are now able to process nearly 17,000 registrants per hour, or 5 per second, with almost no errors."

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