1.   A third area is federal pensions.

2.   A. It saves the president, Congress and the country weeks of agony, and allows the departing president to keep his federal pension and lifetime health benefits.

3.   Additionally, it would seek to increase enforcement of federal pension laws that govern cash-balance and traditional defined benefits plans.

4.   After all, billions in state pension funds, and even some federal pension money, are already invested in the stock market.

5.   Cardoso also wants to reduce federal pension benefits, which currently match or sometimes even exceed the pay of existing employees.

6.   Congress has since taken some of richness out of federal pensions, but not enough to satisfy Keith.

7.   Earlier this year, the Government Reform and Oversight Committee could not pass a federal pension reform measure.

8.   Federal retirees are now barred from collecting full Social Security benefits and a full federal pension, she said.

9.   He also suggested reducing the annual cost-of-living increases for federal pensions.

10.   However, they are subject to federal pension laws if their contributions include private pensions.