Alabama Republican Liberty Caucus

Let’s urge Senator Shelby to support a Federal Reserve audit

Thanks to you, we’ve been pretty successful in getting House members to support The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (HR 1207). The bill currently has 222 cosponsors, which is a majority in the House of Representatives.  The bill “directs the Comptroller General to complete, before the end of 2010, an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and of the federal reserve banks, followed by a detailed report to Congress.”

Because of national and local online and telephone efforts, we were able to persuade Congressman Jo Bonner to sign up as one of the bill’s cosponsors.  Currently, all of Alabama’s Republican representatives support the bill.

We are now starting to work on S 604, which is the Senate companion bill to HR 1207.  Again, we’ve got some national assistance.

As before, there are two quick and simple tasks:

1. If you have a Twitter account, help us get out the word.  It just takes a few seconds. If you don’t have a Twitter account, it just takes a few seconds to sign up and help us out. Once you get there, please retweet the following message: New S 604 Call-A-Thon Target: Richard Shelby 202.224.5744 – demand FULL audit, see: http://bit.ly/yllqR #tlot #tcot #alpolitics
2. Give Senator Shelby a call at (202) 224-5744 and ask him to support a full audit of the Federal Reserve by cosponsoring S 604.

It might be helpful to inform Senator Shelby that all of the Republicans in Alabama’s House delegation have cosponsored the House version of the bill and that none of the Democrats have.