Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Scott calls halt to federal health care law 

implementation 

Gov. Rick Scott, who’s fought against federal health care
 reform since its inception,  said today Florida won’t begin
 implementation of the federal health care law ruled
 unconstitutional by a judge yesterday.

Gov. Rick Scott's pension proposal: State workers pay 5%

 into retirement, end DROP 

Gov. Rick Scott is proposing to overhaul the state's pension system 
for tens of thousands of teachers, police officers and other
 state and county workers by requiring them to contribute
 to their retirement accounts
 and by not offering the pension plan to new workers

GOP Sens Admit: Goal Of Changing Health Care Law

 Is To Kill It 

aren't even pretending that their efforts to tweak the bill
 aren't We've reached a point in the health care fight where Republicans 
also intended to destroy it.

Retirees Count on Florida Retirement System for Survival

Forced to plug a budget hole of nearly $4 billion, state legislators 
see pensions as a source of big-bucks savings.But many of the employees
 and retirees who count on the Florida Retirement System see it as survival.

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Drops

Back in 2009, one of the first things Congress did to actually 
start dealing with the causes of the economic crisis was to 
give the Justice Department more power to detect and 
prosecute fraud in the financial markets.

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