The Payroll Tax Cut extension; The Phillipines' storm; The former French President Chirac sentenced guilty

The Senate is to vote upon a tentative measure on the Payroll Tax Cut Extension bill today.  The Payroll Tax Cut measure that sets the social security tax by 2% set to expire by the end of this year if not extended.  The Senate is to vote on the measure that would extend the tax cut and the unemployment insurance measure for two months, and setting the time limit of 60 days waiting period before the Administrations' decision on the Keystone Pipeline. 

- The tropical rain killed around 200 people in the Philippines. 

- The French court sentenced guilty on the public money smuggling charges on the former French President Jacques Chirac.