Broker Regulation

The House intends to vote down a bipartisan two-month extension of the payroll tax cut that has cleared the Senate and is backed by President Barack Obama, and request immediate negotiations on a full-year renewal, Speaker John Boehner said Monday.

House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans will defeat a short-term bill that would have prevented a tax hike on some 160 million Americans and called on Democrats to stay in Washington through the holiday if necessary to "finish the people's business."

The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Nationwide Supply Inc., under operation as Business Outfitters in Cheyenne, Wyo., as well as Guy Baldino, the companys president and owner, for not depositing employee contributions into the companys pension plan, which violates the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Four recent surveys confirm the notion that the majority of employers will continue to offer employer-sponsored health benefits in 2012 and beyond.

Private contractors that are supposed to guard against Medicare fraud paid claims submitted in the names of dead providers or for unnecessary medical treatments, which were among problems estimated to cost more than $1 billion in 2009, according to an inspector general report released Friday.

Colorado lawmakers moved forward Thursday with an $18 million federal grant application to set up an insurance marketplace required under the new health care law.