[inaudible conversations] come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a re cess for the committee at anytime. Entitled bureaucratic overreach for Consumer Protection. Examining the cfpbs latest action to restrict composition in the payments. Without objection all members have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials for inclusion in the record. I want to recognize myself for five minutes to give a opening statement. Todays hearing, bureaucratic overreach or Consumer Protection examining the cfpbs latest action to restrict competition in payments in my view is critical because its going to talk about this large participants in of Digital Consumer payment applications market. This is the sixth lpr that the cfpb has initiated. And putting aside the egregiously short Comment Period which frustrates both members of this committee, the deeply flawed cost benefit analysis which are both have become hallmarks of this administration i find the substance of pr
Todd fox weather alert. Florida and georgia expected to face severe flood resque today. Live to pensacola, florida, it is coming down there. That is florida. Louisiana, storms ripping through the state, two dead and one hurt arcfter a tree fell on mobile home there. Carley take a look at this massive tornado touching down on a golf course in missouri. Up north, Wildfire Smoke from canadian filling the skies over upper midwest. This is time lapse of smoke blank blanketing Minneapolis Skyline and claiming the worst air quality in the country. You are watching fox and friends first, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. Lets get to meteorologist adam klotz. Adam these areas have been getting hit round after round lately. Big thunderstorms moving across the gulf coast. Isolated tornados overnight indicating something going on across the gulf coast. Red are tornados weve seen over the last 24 hours. Tornado watch for panama city, tallahassee, chip ly until 9 00 a. M. This morning. Ing ingre
Time zones. You can also contact us via social media on twitter or facebook or by email. Before we get an update on the fiscal cliff, two articles to show you. This is from the houston chronicle. Thats from the houston chronicle. If there are updates, we will get those throughout this mornings program. One other article and we want to show you according to one article, the nominee has flown back from hawaii with the president on air force one. Most of the papers are filled with articles about the fiscal cliff issue. Joining us now is merideth shiner of cq roll call. Ms. Shiner. Guest ms. Shiner seem so formal. Were having a recession in between christmas and new years. That has not happened since the 1970s. Maybe we should play disco or maybe they should just finished their work so they can stop making terrible jokes. I think you are a point to see some push in the next few days to try to get some sort of small deal done. You have to remember and your viewers will notice, because they