Lawmakers debate pension cuts for distressed multiemployer plans
Key Republicans and Democrats weigh changes to allow benefit reductions for up to a million retirees in troubled multiemployer pension plans. Officials said talks aim to preserve benefits and avert PBGC bankruptcies as Congress hurries a 1.1 trillion dollar year end spending package to fund the government through Sept. 30, 2015.
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Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp
House
Edu
Cation and Workforce Committee
PBGC
Barack Obama
Senate
Obama
Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Department
Jeff Sessions
R-Ala
GOP
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Religious nonprofits challenge health law at 10th Circuit
In Denver the 10th U.S. Circuit Court heard arguments from Colorado nuns and four Oklahoma Christian colleges challenging a federal birth control exemption. They argue signing opt-out forms makes them complicit, while the government defends exemptions as sufficient religious protection. Judges questioned whether the opt-out process imposes a substantial burden on beliefs. The landmark Hobby Lobby ruling and broader contraception coverage context frame the case.
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Adam Jed
Department of Justice
Jed
Mark Rienzi
Becket Fund For Religious Liberty
Bobby Baldock
Baldock
U.S. Supreme Court
10Th Circuit
Hobby Lobby
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