Negotiators reach tentative payroll tax cut pact

WASHINGTON — House-Senate talks on renew­ing a pay­roll tax cut that deliv­ers about $20 a week to the aver­age worker yielded a ten­ta­tive agree­ment Tues­day, with law­mak­ers plan­ning to unveil the pact Wednes­day and send­ing the mea­sure to Pres­i­dent Barack Obama as early as this week.