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Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is blocked by Senate Democrat Leadership from having a vote on his amendment to audit the Federal Reserve, based on a bill authored by Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) in the House, H.R. 1207, and Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) in the Senate, S. 604.

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The Campaign for Liberty sent out a mass email to its members yesterday about this event. In an email from John Tate of the Campaign for Liberty sent out on July 6th, 2009:

Earlier today, the first shot in our battle to pass Audit the Fed through the U.S. Senate was fired on the Senate floor by Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina.

Senator DeMint, who has a well-deserved reputation for taking the battle to the other side in the Senate, once again proved why he is such a valuable ally in our fight to bring transparency and accountability to the Federal Reserve.

A little while ago, the Senate voted to pass HR 2918, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act. This $3 billion bill contains, among many other things, provisions for GAO audits on certain agencies.

Seizing on a chance to take quick action to bring Audit the Fed up for a vote, and with the GAO provisions in mind, Senator DeMint attached the full text of S 604, the Senate version of Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed bill, to HR 2918 as Senate Amendment 1367 before it was considered for final passage.

However, Senate Democrats refused to even allow a vote on the amendment! That’s right. The internationalist, Fed-loving elite in the Senate used a parliamentary tactic to shut down DeMint’s amendment.

After Senator DeMint brought Audit the Fed to the floor, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska raised a “point of order” to prevent a vote, claiming that the amendment violated Senate Rule 16 by “legislating” on an appropriations bill. The Senate president agreed, and the amendment was shot down.

Senator DeMint did not back down, though, and directly challenged Senate leadership by pointing out the other GAO audits contained in the bill. As Senator DeMint listed them off, the Senate president was forced to agree with Senator DeMint that each one he described, all of which would be left in for final passage, also violated Senate Rule 16.

Which tells us at least one thing: the problem wasn’t with “legislating” on the bill or violating Senate Rules (which is commonly done). Shooting down the amendment was about preventing a thorough audit of the Federal Reserve for the first time in its history!

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Everyday more co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives are adding their support to the Audit the Fed Bill, H.R. 1207. Just yesterday on May 6th 10 more reps signed on as co-sponsors. So as of the early morning of May 7th, their is one sponsor and 134 co-sponsors listed, for a total of 135. So currently 135 out 435 representatives, or 31.03% of all US Representatives now are sponsoring this bill.

Check the current level of co-sponsors at this updated page for H.R. 1207 at thomas.loc.gov/ – CLICK HERE. There could be even more co-sponsors as I type this as it appears that the number of representatives co-sponsoring is updated once early in the morning.

If you think it is a good idea that we should audit the fed, don’t just read and cheer the good news of more co-sponsors. Help make more co-sponsors by contacting your representatives and educating others. Let’s pump the stats up to at least 50.1149% – 218 out of 435.

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Right now, due to a US Code it is not possible for our representatives in Congress, nor any other agency to fully audit the Federal Reserve. The “Audit the Fed Bill” H.R. 1207 would strike portions of US code, 31 USC 714, and order an audit of the Federal Reserve. We need transparency NOW. The private Federal Reserve is creating Trillions of dollars NOW and we need to know what this internally secretive organization is up to and what is on their books, as they are playing with all of our futures and value of the dollar.

HR 1207 has 55 co-sponsors as of April 2nd! Ask your Representative to co-sponsor HR 1207 too! Check to see if your representative has co-sponsored the bill.

I live in Colorado and we have seven Representatives in the US House. I want them to support and cosponsor the bill now, and I want you to help me convince them.

Following are petitions you can download, print out, gather signatures with, and then turn in to your own representatives office. These petitions are asking each of the representatives individually to cosponsor H.R. 1207 and make every effort to seek roll call votes.

You can download the right PDF file for the district you live in and either print up one page and get a few signatures from you, your friends, and families and fax it in, or, print up multiple pages and go out into your neighborhood or in front of a grocery store and gather pages of signatures and mail them in. Or do something in between.

Need to find out what district you live in? VISIT THIS LINK

Download a PDF petition tailored to your Represenative and get collecting signatures of people that live in your district:

1. Ms. Diana DeGette CO-1st (D)
2. Mr. Jared Polis CO-2nd (D)
3. Mr. John Salazar CO-3rd (D)
4. Ms. Betsy Markey CO-4th (D)
5. Mr. Doug Lamborn CO-5th (R)
6. Mr. Mike Coffman CO-6th (R)
7. Mr. Ed Perlmutter CO-7th (D)

Email this page to your friends and family who live in the Colorado and see if they will help in our effort.

Hey, don’t have time to print up a petition, but want to let your representative to co-sponsor H.R. 1207? Well there is an online petition you can sign! You can digitally sign it HERE
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Everyday more co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives are adding their support to the Audit the Fed Bill, H.R. 1207. So as of the morning of April 2nd, their is one sponsor and 55 co-sponsors listed, for a total of 56. So currently 56 out 435 representatives, or 12.87% or all US Representatives now are sponsoring this bill. Five representatives added their sponsorship yesterday:

Check the current level of co-sponsors at this updated page for H.R. 1207 at thomas.loc.gov/ – CLICK HERE. There could be even more co-sponsors as I type this as it appears that the number of representatives co-sponsoring is updated once early in the morning.

If you think it is a good idea that we should audit the fed, don’t just read and cheer the good news of more co-sponsors. Help make more co-sponsors by contacting your representatives and educating others. Let’s pump the stats up to at least 50.1149% – 218 out of 435.

Things you can do: