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September
Outsider Ron Paul finds support for Fed audit
7 September 2009 Yahoo News
After decades of pushing long-shot causes like abolishing the income tax and reinstating the gold standard, Republican Representative Ron Paul finds himself in an unaccustomed spot: on the cusp of legislative victory.
A majority of the libertarian-leaning Texan's colleagues in the House of Representatives support his proposal to increase congressional scrutiny of the Federal Reserve, and the measure could be included in a broader banking overhaul this fall.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090904/pl_nm/us_usa_congress_paul_1
