you have been working with a member of congress to address this issue. can you give us status update on that? we are researching the issue right now. we sent a letter on friday to the north carolina governor swells the u.s. congressional delegation about the issue of federal funding and we are researching it. i have experts confirming for me this could be federal funding of abortion plans and so we are very concerned. we have asked the university of north carolina to clarify for us how this is not going to take taxpayer money and they have not done that thus far. shannon: a great example of when students are educated and organized you can effect change. thanks for sharing your story. shannon: new credit card rules take full effect today. what is new about them and what do you need to know? we will ask tracy burns from the fox business network, next. [ woman ] alright, so this tylenol 8 hour lasts 8 hours.
course on everyone s mind, have you learned your lesson. i have. and it s i ve learned my lesson, i learned that you can t break curfew and get away with it, so i mean, it s creative. robert, is she finished with those 30 hours of baby-sitting community service as you call it and would you recommend this to other parents? no, not quite. no, she s not quite finished yet. roughly about halfway through, but we expect that to be resolved in the next couple of weeks or so. i d absolutely recommend it to other parents. we tried to individualize the punishment to make sure she gets something out of it and i think she has. i think so. she looks like so innocent. i wonder if the parents are concerned about having the troublemaker baby sit though. robert and kirsten raush, we appreciate you being here. thanks. new credit card rules, go into effect today. what you need to know about late payment fees coming up in
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yet. we really need to be drilling. julia reed and doug brinkley, thanks so much for joining us this morning. if you use certain credit cards or you don t use certain credit cards, maybe you don t pay your bills on time, there are some new rules that will help take the sting out of some of those penalties. our christine romans breaks down the new credit card rules. it s 18 minutes past the hour.
allowing credit card rates and leverage for those credit cards to be decided based on where the bank issuing the credit card was based as opposed to where you the credit card holder lived. why does that matter? because now think of it like waziristan for bank scams. everybody goes to south dakota. they holed up. get south dakota, make whatever rules they want so who cares what state, california, texas or illinois, wants to protect you from credit card scams. they have no rights to do so because of the marquette decision from the supreme court. they all open up shop in liberal states. thank you, south dakota. jack up rates. bad news for us. how bad? take a look at the rise in personal bankruptcies which started shortly after the marquette decision to effectively allowed all of the tricks and traps and rates and all of the things that we all know go on in the credit card business. this amendment from sanders & white house will be voted on tomorrow. it would make it such that the credit c