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Secondly, who sent them out? our secretary of state, as you pointed out, is the election official. but these 478,000 welfare recipients got registrations from the welfare department. so, yeah, maybe they don't follow politics, maybe they've never voted before, they get a letter that usually has their check in it, but all of a sudden instead there's a thing that says fill out this voter registration form, it's important. do you think they're going to wonder or say, hey, this is from the welfare office for some reason, i'd better send it in. shannon: well, as elizabeth warren, to be fair, mentio...

Settles it and says by coincidence our solution's going to be to mail registration forms to 478,000 welfare recipients. what a coincidence for the democrats on the eve of a tight election. shannon: well, you mentioned, you know, the governor there did not challenge this. these suits are going on in a number of different states, but my understanding is this is costing roughly $275,000 of taxpayer money, they've also got to run tv and radio ads, and the secretary of state has to go out and do some public appearances where he explains the law in person to those who may be affected. do you think i...

That is the top number. so it's more, megyn, again that depends on congress, it depends on the supreme court and the president. there are a lot of if's in this report and it's not a good if. megyn: let's hope they find some money in their christmas stocking that they didn't know existed, cheryl. thank you. speaking of tax-payer funded promises there is a story out of philadelphia getting a lot of attention today as a city councilwoman takes advantage of a legal loophole to hit taxpayers with a massive pension bill. mary ann tasco will be stepping down from her job tomorrow but only so she can ...

Savvy and she is proving that to be very accurate. she is retiring from her 6th term as a philadelphia councilwoman and she gets a parting gift of $478,000. on monday she gets sworn in for her 7th turn and goes back onto the payroll. tasco and other county members and other city workers are enrolled in a program called deferred retirement option plan, drop for short. it was started by then mayored rendell. it allows employees to collect salary and build up a pension during the final four years of their employment. she said she planned to retire in 2011 in 2007. roughly $108,000 which gives her...

the dark. our congressional correspondent kate bolduan is on capitol hill looking into the story. kate, what's going only here? this was not supposed to be like this. >> reporter: hey there, wolf. i'm standing out front as people are passing by. behind me is this nondescript room. this is where the super committee will meet again this evening behind closed doors which has some government watchers, since this committee has such a huge job before them, some government watchers are calling this approach troubling. >> good morning. >> reporter: the so-called super committee began its wor...