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#RetroReid Rewind
There's #Throwback Thursday, and now there's #RetroReid Rewind, starting with this gem from 1995, where then-just-plain-ol'-Senator Harry Reid says, "I think we should audit the Federal Reserve": Fast forward to 2010, when [...]
Classic Ron Paul: Audit the Fed
Since yesterday the Audit the Fed legislation obtaining the support of a majority of the House of Representatives for the third Congress in a row, today seems like a good day to revisit Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's 2011 [...]
Destructive and Devastating Sequester cost one federal job
Remember the sequester and how it was going to cause destruction and devastation/ destroy America? Well it cost a total of one federal job. From Reason: As then White House flack and now-CNN Crossfire host Stephanie Cutter defined [...]
Audit the Fed Surpasses 218 Cosponsors
Today, Campaign for Liberty announced that H.R. 24, Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill, which was reintroduced this Congress by Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), is now cosponsored by a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives for the third [...]
More businesses being destroyed than created
According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, between 2009-2011, for the first time since 1978, more businesses were being destroyed than were created. From The Washington Post: The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than [...]
Congress Pulls Bait-and-Switch on USA FREEDOM Act
Yesterday, C4L sent a letter to members of the House Judiciary Committee strongly opposing the Manager's Amendment to H.R. 3361, the USA FREEDOM Act. The original version of the act was sold to Americans as a way to rein in the NSA's domestic [...]
C4L Applauds House Action On IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups
Today Campaign for Liberty applauded the House of Representatives for calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate and prosecute the IRS's targeting of conservative groups. “The IRS’s political [...]
Yellen: Print More
Speaking today in front of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Janet Yellen called for continued action from the Fed to prop up the struggling US economy. From Bloomberg News: “A high degree of monetary accommodation remains [...]
GOP's electrifying vote on corporate welfare
Today, the House of Representatives will consider the Electrify Africa Act (HR 2548). This bill creates "...a comprehensive United States Government policy to assist countries in sub-Saharan Africa to develop an appropriate mix of power [...]