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Liberty NewsWire: July 5, 2012
Passengers say their problem is not with the rules at the airport. They understand why drinks are not allowed through security, but when they buy one while they wait for their flight, they say the TSA shouldn't ask to test it." [...]
Audit the Fed Passes House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
This morning, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously passed Audit the Fed, H.R. 459, by voice vote.Thanks to the historic grassroots efforts supporting this legislation, an amendment offerred by Rep. Cummings that would [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 25, 2012
“Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane,” Humphreys told Fox News.Humphreys says the implications are very serious. “In 5 or 10 years you have 30,000 drones in the airspace,” he told Fox [...]
Audit the Fed's AWOL Cosponsors
With Audit the Fed slated for a stand alone vote in the full House in late July, C4L is pulling out all the stops to build the number of cosponsors up before the vote.The following members were cosponsors of The Federal Reserve Transparency Act [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 20, 2012
U.S. Federal Reserve officials extended through the end of the year a program meant to drive down long-term interest rates and signaled that they were "prepared to take further action" if needed amid heightened worry about the [...]
Liberty NewsWire: July 3, 2012
Ranchers who object to the program said they're not trying to hide anything. It's the quiet approach the EPA took with the program designed to spot illegal disposal of animal waste that they find upsetting. Most were not even aware of the [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 27, 2012
The House oversight committee voted Wednesday to demand a broad audit of the Federal Reserve System by congressional investigators — a major move that lawmakers said is designed to bring accountability to the murky workings of the [...]
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Noncosponsors
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a markup on Audit the Fed, H.R. 459, possibly even as soon as next week!The following members of the committee have yet to cosponsor H.R. 459, though several of them were [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 22, 2012
This indicates that opposition to drone use is on solid legal footing and will be even more so if Mr.Paul’s bill becomes law. The use of drones is unconstitutional, something of which the president should be aware, given his background as a [...]
Regretting Intervention
The United States is looking foolish right now as the U.S.-backed revolution in Egypt is turning into a fiasco. The Egyptian Military has recently seized control over the government amidst democratic elections in the country, and if the military [...]