Rep. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act is making progress… The House version of the bill (HR1207) has 313 co-sponsors The Senate version (S604) has 30 co-sponsors And last week, Ron Paul along with Rep. Alan Grayson introduced a version of the bill as an amendment to H.R. 3996, Rep. Barney Frank’s mammoth banking regulation…
I was pleased last week when we won a vote in the Financial Services Committee to include language from the Audit the Fed bill HR1207 in the upcoming financial regulatory reform bill. As it stands now, if HR 3996 passes, because of this action, the Federal Reserve’s entire balance sheet will be opened up to…
From a piece on MSN today regarding some of the House Republicans calling on Geithner to step down as Secretary of Treasury and Congress lashing out at Obama, we find this piece regarding yesterday’s vote on Ron Paul’s amendment to HR1207 to keep the bill doing what we want it to do, a full audit…
Alan Grayson details the problems with Watt’s amendment to Ron Paul’s HR1207 Federal Reserve Audit bill. Watt responds rather angrily.
For nearly a century the Federal Reserve has operated in the shadows, away from the prying eyes of Congress, journalists and the American people. Created in 1913, the Fed was given enormous responsibility to protect the value of our currency. Yet in the last 96 years the U.S. dollar has lost more than 95% of…
I feel this post from Campaign for Liberty needs to be spread far and wide and to as many people as we can get it to. Campaign for Liberty is taking the battle against Big Government’s takeover of health care and health freedom to the television airwaves, and we need your help to mobilize more…
In his latest C4L update, Congressman Ron Paul discusses recent events that will have a significant impact on monetary policy, talks about the dollar, and answers a question concerning the IMF. Via Campaign for Liberty
Veterans Day arrives tomorrow, and with it, the anticipated harvest of heartbreaking anecdotes driving the press coverage and our ever wandering attention back to less desirable realities: the disfigured but persevering hero, the homeless warrior, the unemployable sergeant, the father or son or daughter who came home a stranger and cannot be reached. Usually, there…
WASHINGTON — In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin…
Ron Paul and his son Rand chat with Judge Andrew Napolitano on the growing rift between Libertarians and Republicans.