Auditing the Fed
By | Sunday, June 7th, 2009 | Policy

In an environment full of bailouts, buy outs, and handouts, many politicians still claim no matter how much they want to spend or tax or both, they are fiscally responsible. If that were true, one would think every member of Congress would jump at the opportunity to easily prove that point by co-sponsoring legislation to audit the Federal Reserve in the wake of so much money being created out of thin air. H.R. 1207 currently has 190 co-sponsors including Republicans and Democrats. In Virginia, we have 3 Republicans and 1 Democrat as co-sponsors:
Wittman (R-VA-01)
Forbes (R-VA-04)
Perriello (D-VA-05)
Goodlatte (R-VA-06)

Of the remaining:
Nye (D-VA-02) – new guy probably doesn’t understand the Fed
Scott (D-VA-03) – don’t know much about him
Cantor (R-VA-07) – don’t understand why he hasn’t signed on yet
Moran (D-VA-08) – will be a cold day in …
Boucher (D-VA-09) – another guy I don’t know much about
Wolf (R-VA-10) – not surprised
Connolly (D-VA-11) – yeah right

As far as I can tell, any member of Congress who is not going to co-sponsor H.R. 1207 should never speak of fiscal responsibility without being called a hypocrite.


Tags:

Contribute for Conservatism!

Share this post

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed
  • Share this post on Delicious
  • StumbleUpon this post
  • Share this post on Digg
  • Tweet about this post
  • Share this post on Mixx
  • Share this post on Technorati
  • Share this post on Facebook
  • Share this post on NewsVine
  • Share this post on Reddit
  • Share this post on Google
  • Share this post on LinkedIn

About the author

Amit Singh

I'm left handed but right brained.

Comments

2 Responses to "Auditing the Fed"
  1. Steven Osborne June 8, 2009 08:15 am

    Kudos to Perriello for signing on.

    I don’t understand why we wouldn’t want to audit the Fed. Personally I think that it might be a good idea to get rid of the Fed altogether.

  2. Amit June 8, 2009 12:11 pm

    now you’re talking

Leave your response

Please take a moment to review our comment policy.