First Democrat Senator co-sponsors S.202 the Federal Reserve Transparency Act

[AngelClark]

Over halfway there! Contact your Senator and ask them to co-sponsor S.202! 32 Senators out of 60!

"Ron Paul supporters around the country are getting active once again, although the argument could be made that many of them never stopped being active. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act passed the House of Representatives in July. Within hours reports spread that S.202, the Senate version of the bill, would never be voted on in the Senate. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader and Nevada Democrat, vowed the bill would never reach the floor of the Senate. However, Senator Rand Paul, Ron Paul's son, had introduced the bill in 2011. Steady trickles of Senators have co-sponsored the "Audit the Fed" bill calling for an independent audit of the Federal Reserve for the first time in its history. Mark Begich, D- Alaska, became the first Democrat to join 31 Republicans to co-sponsor S.202."

Continue Reading: http://www.examiner.com/article/fir...eral-reserve-transparency-act?cid=db_articles

 

[FSP-Rebel]

How in the world did AK get a dem Senator

cool tho

On 2nd thought, they do have Murkowski so nvmd.

 

[Smart3]

How in the world did AK get a dem Senator

cool tho

On 2nd thought, they do have Murkowski so nvmd.

Begich will be annihilated by Parnell in 2014.

Alaska is not completely Republican.

 

[LopTarDaBoo]

What do y'all think, is Twitter a better medium for sending comments than the Senator's site email? I figure with Twitter I cause a little negative publicity as well as send my comment.

 

[jordie]

What do y'all think, is Twitter a better medium for sending comments than the Senator's site email? I figure with Twitter I cause a little negative publicity as well as send my comment.

Why not both?

 

[Keith and stuff]

How in the world did AK get a dem Senator

cool tho

On 2nd thought, they do have Murkowski so nvmd.

Lol. Democrats won seats in areas that lean Republican in many states in 2006 and 2008. In AK, the GOP nominee was particularly bad. He was the senator famous for the bridge to nowhere.

The Gravina Island Bridge, commonly referred to as the "Bridge to Nowhere", was a proposed bridge to replace the ferry that currently connects the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, with Gravina Island, an island that contains the Ketchikan International Airport as well as 50 residents. The bridge was projected to cost $398 million. Members of the Alaskan congressional delegation, particularly Representative Don Young and Senator Ted Stevens, were the bridge's biggest advocates in Congress, and helped push for federal funding.[1] The project encountered fierce opposition outside of Alaska as a symbol of pork barrel spending and is labeled as one of the more prominent "bridges to nowhere".[2] As a result, Congress removed the federal earmark for the bridge in 2005.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge

 

[tsai3904]

60 co-sponsors are needed to bring the Federal Reserve Transparency Act to a vote on the Senate floor.

That's not true. 60 votes are needed to invoke cloture but garnering 60 cosponsors does nothing procedurally for a bill.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

This is a good thing, no?