outage during sebelius's testimony. >> the website has never crashed. it is functional but at a very slow speed. >> reporter: president obama made his own case in boston, addressing his campaign pledge that if you like your plan, you can keep it for the first time since some americans have seen their policies canceled. >> if you had one of these substandard plans before the affordable care act became law and you like that plan, you are able to keep it. that's what i said when i was running for office. but ever since the law was passed, if insurers decided to downgrade or cancel these substandard plans, we said under the law, you have to replace them with quality competencive coverage. >> reporter: obama spoke at faneuil hall where mitt romney signed massachusetts's universal health care plan into law in 2006. he took aim at republicans for