FOXNews.com: Obama meets with Senate Democrats anxious over health care law

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Obama meets with Senate Democrats anxious over health care law Nov 6th 2013, 20:50 Published November 06, 2013 FoxNews.com Nov. 6, 2013: President Barack Obama and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. Michael Bennett, D-Colo., board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base.AP President Obama on Wednesday sought to assuage anxious Democrats who are worried that ObamaCare's troubled rollout is going to come back to haunt them during the 2014 midterm elections. "There's a lot of pent-up frustration" among Senate Democrats who are facing voters next year, a party source familiar with the meeting told Fox News. The White House meeting took place between 16 senators as well as the president, Vice President Joe Biden, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Jeffrey Zients, a former Office of Management and Budget acting director who's been tapped to fix the troubled HealthCare.gov website. Several senators at the meeting – which was left off the president's public schedule this morning – pressed the president on how their constituents still cannot access the website, which Zients said will be fixed by the end of the month. But skeptical lawmakers are worried that if the deadline is missed, there's going to be more pressure on them from constituents. The meeting could suggest that momentum is building for Democrats to force changes to the law. A letter circulated in late October among Democratic senators urged the Obama administration to delay enforcement of the health care law's individual mandate, a recommendation supported by senators Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Mary Landrieu, D-La., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Mark Begich, D-Alaska, and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., all of whom were present at Wednesday's meeting. Also present at the meeting were Cory Booker, D-N.J., Chris Coons, D-Del., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Al Franken, D-Minn., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Mark Udall, D-Colo., Tom Udall, D-Ariz., Mark Warner, D-Va., and Michael Bennett, D-Colo. Fox News' Ed Henry contributed to this report. FOX NEWS FIRST NEWSLETTER Daily must-read stories from the biggest name in politics Today Virginia squeaker sends shivers through Dems

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