{"id":217372,"date":"2010-01-21T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=31660"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:16:34","slug":"lame-ducks-fight-audit-the-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217372","title":{"rendered":"Lame Ducks Fight Audit the Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>This is part of what happens when you don&#8217;t have to answer to the people.&nbsp; Lame ducks Judd Gregg and Chris Dodd (both retiring this year), according to <em>The Huffington Post<\/em>, are fighting to keep the House-passed audit provision out of the Senate&#8217;s version of the financial regulatory reform package.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A House-passed provision to open up the Federal Reserve to an audit by the Government Accountability Office is unlikely to be included in the Senate reform package, Barney Frank told a meeting of House Financial Services Committee members Wednesday, according to people in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Frank, chairman of the committee, told the members that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told him that he had assured Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) that it wouldn&#8217;t be a part of the bill. Gregg has been a strident opponent of the effort to open the Fed to an audit&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/21\/dodd-and-gregg-block-audi_n_431421.html\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As John <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/index.php#31656\">said earlier<\/a>, keep those calls going urging your senators to reject any vote on Ben Bernanke&#8217;s confirmation to a second term until we get a standalone vote on Audit the Fed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes This is part of what happens when you don&#8217;t have to answer to the people.&nbsp; Lame ducks Judd Gregg and Chris Dodd (both retiring this year), according to The Huffington Post, are fighting to keep the House-passed audit provision out of the Senate&#8217;s version of the financial regulatory reform package. A House-passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}