National Blog - page 172
Campaign for Liberty supports efforts to end Harvest Price Subsidies
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition in support of Representative Jeff Duncan's Harvest Price Subsidy Prohibition Act (HR 892/S. 463). As suggested by the title, this legislation repeals Harvest Price Options. Harvest Price Options [...]
Is the Congress Stacking the Deck on Internet Gambling?
Congress adjourned early this week (HOOORAY) because of an impending snow storm. This storm has forced the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations of the House Judiciary Committee to postpone their scheduled [...]
Ron Paul Testimony Before the Senate Banking Committee
Ron Paul reads his written submitted testimony to the Senate Banking Committee hearing on Federal Reserve Reform on March 3, 2015 Testimony of Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Hearing [...]
Happy Birthday, Murray Rothbard!
Today is Murray Rothbard's ninety-fifth birthday. With the Federal Reserve and its apologists continuing to spread the myth that Audit the Fed would somehow compromise their precious "independence," I can think of no better way to celebrate [...]
Yellen: Don't Audit Me!
This Tuesday, the Senate Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs Committee will hold a hearing titled "Federal Reserve Reform." Unfortunately, Audit the Fed (S. 264), despite its massive popularity among the American people, isn't on the [...]
This Congress should embrace ideas to expand liberty
for a change... Brian Darling suggests the new Congress show its commitment to liberty by blocking the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms new regulations banning certain types of bullets, reducing "mandatory minimum “sentences for [...]
Last Week's Forum at Cato Institute
By Zachary Nickerson Last Wednesday, the CATO Institute held a book forum on “Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution: Reforming Government’s Role in the Monetary System” with one of the editors of the book, Professor Larry [...]
Is the Fed Arguing in Bad Faith?
Paul-Martin Foss examines the Fed's claim that the Audit the Fed bill would allow Congress to dictate monetary policy and let Congress "look over the Fed's shoulder" in real time, to see if the Fed's claims have any credibility (SPOILER ALERT [...]
Department of Homeland Security: What is it Good For?
Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week. This vote followed weeks of debate over efforts to attach a prohibition on funding President Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to [...]
Why does the Fed fear an Audit?
Seth Lipsky of the New York Sun wants to know: Yellen dug in her heels Tuesday, when she appeared before the committee and was asked about Sen. Rand Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act. She said she wanted to be “completely clear” that [...]