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Health bill votes look low in House

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 5:09 a.m.

 In this image released by NBC David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's top political adviser, is interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press in Washington Sunday, March 14, 2010. Axelrod said Sunday that lobbyists are gathering on Capitol Hill "like locusts" to try to derail health care legislation, that passage will be a struggle, but that he's confident the overhaul will soon become law.  NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES

In this image released by NBC David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's top political adviser, is interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press in Washington Sunday, March 14, 2010. Axelrod said Sunday that lobbyists are gathering on Capitol Hill "like locusts" to try to derail health care legislation, that passage will be a struggle, but that he's confident the overhaul will soon become law. NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES

The House’s chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday that he hadn’t rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul heading into an expected makeor-break week, even as the White House’s top political adviser said he was “absolutely confident” in its prospects.

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