| Above the Fold |
December 20, 2011 |
| Court schedules week of health care arguments |
| By Jesse J. Holland |
| The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will use an unprecedented week's worth of argument time in late March to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul...Read more |
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| Today's News |
| House begins debating payroll tax cut |
| By Andrew Taylor |
| With neither side showing signs of yielding, a bitterly divided House debated a Republican effort Tuesday to force the Senate to negotiate a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits that expire on New Year's Day...Read more |
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| IRI to FIO: Focus on current state of retirement savings |
| By Paula Aven Gladych |
| In a letter to the Federal Insurance Office, the Insured Retirement Institute encouraged the FIO to focus on the insurance regulatory system in the context of the current state of retirement savings in America and the need for consumers to insure against the risk of outliving their assets as part of any assessment of the regulation of the insured retirement industry...Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 I don't like to pay taxes, but the new reality is the U.S. Government needs this revenue even more that us taxpayers. Collectively it's a lot of money to help pay for social Security. Its such a small amount of money for most taxpayers and business owners it is not even relevant. The social security and medicare funding needs to go UP AND NOT DOWN. I hate both political parties for their oppositional for the sake of being oppositional attitudes. Both parties are pathetic in their unwillingness to truly work things for the interest of the taxpaying public. 
-- Steve, Boehner: House will reject 2-month payroll tax cut
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