This Week for your Florida Federal Critters!

October 24, 2011 In this MegaVote for Florida's 20th Congressional District: Recent Congressional Votes Senate: Confirmation of John Edgar Bryson to be Secretary of Commerce Senate: Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011 Senate: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 Upcoming Congressional Bills House: Internal Revenue Code Editor's Note: The Senate is in recess this week. Recent Senate Votes Confirmation of John Edgar Bryson to be Secretary of Commerce - Vote Confirmed (74-26) The Senate confirmed John Bryson as Secretary of Commerce. Bryson succeeds Gary Locke, who is now the ambassador toChina. Sen. Bill Nelson voted YES......send e-mail or see bio Sen. Marco Rubio voted NO......send e-mail or see bio Teachers and First Responders Back to Work Act of 2011 - Vote Rejected (50-50) Last week the Senate rejected consideration of this bill that would allocate $30 billion in grants to state and local governments to pay to hire or retain teachers and $5 billion in grants to governments and other groups to pay for law enforcement officers and emergency personnel. This was one component of the president’s broader jobs bill that was rejected earlier in the month. Sen. Bill Nelson voted YES......send e-mail or see bio Sen. Marco Rubio voted NO......send e-mail or see bio Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 - Vote Agreed to (82-16, 2 Not Voting) The Senate reached the necessary 60 votes to end debate on a legislative package that combines the fiscal 2012 Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science (S 1572) and Transportation-HUD (S 1596) appropriations bills. When they return from a weeklong recess, senators will resume consideration of the bill. Sen. Bill Nelson voted YES......send e-mail or see bio Sen. Marco Rubio voted NO......send e-mail or see bio Upcoming Votes Internal Revenue Code - H.R.674 The House is scheduled to vote this week on a bill to repeal a 3 percent withholding requirement on government contractor payments.

Florida's Federal Critters

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This link is to show you what Florida's Federal Critters are up to.
The State Critters are in committees right now.
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It's Hard To Be a Racist by Walter E. Williams

This is by Professor of Economics, from George Mason University.The only time the Rush Limbaugh Show is worth listening to. Is when Professor Williams is hosting.

It's Hard To Be a Racist by Walter E. Williams

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Ron Paul's Free Competition in Currency Act.

Quote of the Day: "Congressional oversight of the Fed amounts to about twelve hours of hearings per year, and that's as far as it goes. Of those twelve hours, no more than five or ten minutes goes to any one Congressman, who has the opportunity to ask at most one question of Chairman Bernanke every six months. To claim that this is effective oversight is laughable." - Rep. Ron Paul
Ron Paul began hearings about Federal Reserve transparency on Tuesday, October 4. We agree with Congressman Paul -- the Fed is unconstitutional. It should be abolished. Barring that, it must at least be audited.

Congressman Pauls' Free Competition in Currency Act will accomplish both things: Transparency now, abolition eventually.

This is why I sent the following letter to my elected representatives. You may copy it or borrow form it to send a letter of your own.

I support Federal Reserve transparency. I think the Free Competition in Currency act is the best way to achieve that. Here's why . . .

Let Americans choose what they want to use for money -- gold, silver, or some other form of currency. Then the Federal Reserve will then have to compete to get people to use Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs).
Competition will require the Fed to become transparent. No consumer will consent to use FRNs if the Fed won't consent to be audited. How else could a consumer know the value of an FRN? Only an audit could verify the number of FRNs the Fed is creating.
This new competition-induced transparency will also force the Fed to stop inflating the number of FRNs. The Fed's legalized counterfeiting will end. And if the Fed doesn't stop, then it will end, as companies with bad products always do.
For ten years Congress has imposed privacy-destroying legislation on the American people, saying, "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide." Well, shouldn't that rule apply to the Fed?
If it has nothing to hide, then it should submit to a thorough audit.
I don't want you to exercise political influence over the Fed. And I certainly don't want to abolish the Fed if it means having an identical monetary monopoly run by the Treasury Department. Instead . . .
I want to choose what I will use as currency, free from coercion.
I want to make the Fed transparent and accountable, by making it compete.
Please co-sponsor the Free Competition in Currency Act.

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