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Ron Paul's legacy celebrated after House votes to audit Federal Reserve [message #1813] Thu, 26 July 2012 15:50
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Hundreds of young libertarians gathered Wednesday night to celebrate the legacy of retiring Rep. Ron Paul hours after the House passed legislation to audit the Federal Reserve that the Texas congressman has been pushing for years.

"We had a little vote today in the House of Representatives," Paul said to roaring applause at the Young Americans for Liberty event in his honor.

After the young crowd began chanting, "End the Fed! End the Fed!" Paul responded: "I've always argued that once the Fed gets audited, the Fed will end."

While the House overwhelmingly passed Paul's signature legislative desire Wednesday, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Sen. Harry Reid's office has signaled that he won't bring the legislation to a vote in the Senate.

Paul's son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul -- who also addressed the crowd at Catholic University on Wednesday night -- urged those assembled to email Reid's office and plead with him to call a vote on the legislation.

The lawmaker said his staff uncovered video showing Reid in the 1990s "going to town, talking about how we should audit the Fed."

"Now, you have to convince him that he still believes that," Rand Paul said. "And so one of the things you can do, if everyone in this room left here and emailed Harry Reid, I think it would help."

Ron Paul predicted that the Senate would pass the legislation if actually brought to a vote.

The Texas congressman said, "If they did have an up or down honest vote in the Senate right now, I'm convinced the majority would vote for it."

Full article: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/25/ron-pauls-legacy-celebrate d-after-house-votes-to-audit-federal-reserve/


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