We have an obligation, a moral obligation, here in the Congress to know exactly what the agreements are.
We just want to know what is going on and why and the discussions.
We need to end the bailouts in which the Fed has been instrumental, I think, in carrying out over the last 18 months.
They don't want to make it a political football.
There is a strong argument now that the more we know about what has been going on in this last year, the more it would h...
A lot of us think of independence--we put another word in there automatically, that means 'secret' and 'clandestine' and...
I believe if we continue to do these things, continue to have stimulus packages and deficits, we are going to have cripp...
Of course, you know, without an audit we never know.
Didn't you find out that we are not supposed to do that around here? We don't have that much concern about it.
The Fed is a government unto itself. You know, they hire and make their wages and it doesn't go through the ordinary pro...
So transparency, how can you be against transparency? But I believe the Congress would be more effective in its oversigh...
Now it sounded to me like the majority here is for independence, which is a code word for secrecy and in opposition to t...
I think it is in the public interest that we have an unfettered debate within the Open Market Committee...
To functionally create a commission of consumer punishment, not consumer protection, this is an original idea, it is an ...
Some people seem to be asserting that our citizens are incapable of managing their own risk...
The proposed VA hospital in Louisville is currently stalled.
I am not sure why we need to pass a bill giving the Fed even more power that it already has.
I do not believe that we should pass any legislation that would de-incentivize States and localities from reigning in th...