This Week's Agenda: Iowa Caucus, Payroll Tax Cut, Euro Zone Crisis

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) shake hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti (R) on November 24, 2011 in Strasbourg, France.
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