if you want to bail out the doj. hold it for three weeks, come on! gregg: we can agree that congress passes unconstitutional laws, all the time, and, that is the function what this courts are there for, called checks and balances. gregg: thanks, arthur and lis weihl, good to see you both. gregg, you look handsome today! gregg: don t give me that stuff! very handsome todayed. the outfits are matching today. planned, probably. e-mailed each other. i saw the purple tie and wore this. julie: we have a new study, it will shock you, though when you find out the fastest growing group of obese people in the nation, you will not believe it, next.
debt you have to you are going to find willing partners on the republican side. reporter: what is they willing to cut and what the white house is willing to cut may be two different things. we ll see more in the coming days. gregg: today was the business day in terms of signing legislation for the president. tell us about that. reporter: the 9/11 health bill that was passed in the lame duck session of congress the president signed into law today. we are expected to get a photo, it might be disappointing they didn t get the photo opt but for the 9/11 heroes that rushed to the scene and now paying a big price in terms of their health. they will be getting assistance from the government now they are suffering with health issues, gregg. gregg: mike, wearing a subdued shirt today, live from hawaii. thanks very much. you had to see him yesterday. julie: congress is returning
more, is it the next business venture waiting to be exploited. julie: new congress is getting to work this week in washington, but before lawmakers take their seats there are already strong words flying across this aisle. many of those words coming from members of the government oversight committee, the new republican chair, congressman darrell issa, ready to challenge the white house, on spending. peter doocy live in our washington bureau with the wrap-up. reporter: you re right, congressman darrell issa, bean in d.c. a decade and wednesday, he ll be sitting atop the house oversight and government reform committee and he says he can find enough fraud and waste in big government programs to save taxpayers $200 billion. over the next two years. and he thinks a lot of stimulus money has been wasted, and same for the health care law and he thinks too many shovel ready projects end up sitting on the shelves instead of making their way to towns across america that need infrastructure an
investigations, will be beneficial to america, to our country. let me answer the question. gregg: let me ask dwhegthe questions, it works better that way, oversight is to expose fraud and abuse. aren t there plenty of targets now. you have the stimulus, bailouts, t.a.r.p., the subprime mortgage debacle, foreclosure crisis dant a and didn t all of that happen when your party, democrats were in congress. a lot of that happened during the bush gregg: i said democrats in power in congress. let me answer your question. gregg: the democrats have controlled congress. we ought to look at what happened with the subprime mortgage situation, and ought to look at what happened, with foreclosures and the question that you asked bob a moment ago, this is an area where i agree with him and i think there is a potential that the epa will overstep its bounds and try and do cog congress refused to do legislatively and that is a valid area for congress to examine and i expect they will.
who have established some of that in the campaign before. that is why it s a lot more difficult on the republican side to see somebody just come right out of blue. julie: the biguestion is what is going to happen to the republican party? are they going to cater to the tea party or by losing moderates or be the party of corporate america, or will they find the roots to physical conserve tism? think we re going to see a real republican civil war what is going on in the party and in congress where there is a strong tea party caucus. where you see the leadership is going to affect what is happening at the presidential level. i actually disagree, i think one of the unknowns could emerge in the environment particularly if sarah palin doesn t get into the race and be the darling of the tea party movement.