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In this Oct. 28, 2010 photo, model Natasha Smahlei works at the Caitlin Raymond International Registry exhibit during the New England Business Expo in Worcester, Mass. Models were hired by UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester to draw potential bone marrow donors for the bone marrow registry. Officials are investigating why the lab over-billed insurance companies and whether samples were taken from people who didn't qualify. (AP Photo/The Telegram & Gazette, Paul Kapteyn)
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BLOOMBERG "This compromise was to help people who were drowning," said Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., defending the compromise President Obama made with congressional Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts. The bill also included an extension of unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.
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Firefighters sift through the still-smoldering Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Tuguegarao city in Cagayan province in the northern Philippines after a fire rapidly swept through the budget hotel early Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. The blaze killed 15 people, nine of whom were nursing students in town to take a licensing exam, officials said. (AP Photo)
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Unemployed workers fill out online resumes at the Maricopa County Workforce Connections job fair on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Unemployed workers fill out online resumes at the Maricopa County Workforce Connections job fair on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has assumed a high profile in leading a legal challenge of the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. (Associated Press)
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Protesting Bangladeshi garments workers burn tires and furniture to block traffic, at Chittagong, 135 miles southeast of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. Garment workers demanding the implementation of a new minimum wage clashed with police at an industrial zone in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving up to three people dead and 100 hurt, police and news reports said. (AP Photo/ Alauddin Hossain Dulall)
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HIS POINT: Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II says the Obamacare case isn't about health insurance, "it's about liberty." (Associated Press)
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Steel mill workers raise their hands in support of a point made at the gathering, one of many being held in neighborhoods and workplaces across Cuba between now and April. (Associated Press)
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An attendee examines a Spanish-language document "Guidelines for Economic and Social Politics" during the meeting, which took up "macroeconomic policies," "science, technological and innovation" and "transportation policies," among other things. (Associated Press)
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Arturo Martinez speaks at a meeting with labor union and Communist Party leaders on Cuba's economic problems at the steel mill Antillana de Acero in Havana. Major free-market reforms are in the works on the island nation. (Associated Press)
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Protesting Bangladeshi garments workers burn tires and furniture to block traffic in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. Workers demanding the implementation of a new minimum wage clashed with police at an industrial zone, leaving up to three people dead and 100 hurt, police and news reports said. (AP Photo/Alauddin Hossain Dulall)
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Bolivia's President Evo Morales, left, signs the new retirement law in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. The law lowers the country's retirement age to 58 and also nationalizes the pension system and extends coverage to the 60 percent of Bolivians who work in the informal economy. At right is Pedro Montes, leader of Bolivia's Workers Central Union. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Dollar bills are on display at the Diversified table during a job fair at the Radisson Martinique hotel, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 in New York. The insurance company is giving away dollar bills to attract sales representatives. The Labor Department said Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, that first-time claims for jobless aid fell by 17,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 421,000 in the week ending Dec. 4. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan Republican, said of the compromise: "This framework will allow us to extend all current tax rates and give economic recovery and job creation a chance." (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks to the news media Monday after meeting with Democratic congressional leaders about a year-end bipartisan agreement to extend expiring tax cuts. He said "there are things that I do not like" about the compromise with Republicans in exchange for an unemployment insurance extension. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A Wal-Mart employee retrieves shopping carts at a store in Washington Township, N.J. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, entertainer Jeneane Marie Cranert uses crutches to get around her Las Vegas home. The Vegas veteran, who has performed with Frank Sinatra and Liberace, has a bone disease in her hip, but doesn't have health insurance and can't afford hip replacement surgery. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
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In this Nov. 10, 2010, photo, job seeker Stephanie Taylor, second from right, fills out an application while attending a job fair in Livonia, Mich. The nation's unemployment rate climbed to 9.8 percent in November, a seven-month high, as hiring slowed. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
