The senate finance committee is set to hear a signature piece of Governor Bill Ritter's legislative agenda today. The bill aims to reform the public employee pension system, or PERA, to make it solvent. The pension fund has lost about 23 billion dollars since the start of the recession. Bente Birkeland reports from the statehouse in Denver.
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