Statements Related to The US Congress should audit the Federal Reserve

• Congress made health insurance companies exempt from anti-trust oversight in 1945 (1+/0- justifications)
• The US pledge of allegiance did not contain the words "under god" until 1954 when the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus lobbied congress to add the language by law (1+/0- justifications)
• Pentagon officials gave congress false information about 9/11 and al-Qa'ida (1+/0- justifications)
• There are barriers to abortion coverage for people who would recieve federal subsidies for health insurance (1+/0- justifications)
• Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) family received over 1/4 of a million dollars in federal subsidies over ten years (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve bought (and held) 80% of the $1.5 trillion of 2009 government debt (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has not kept his promise to end federal grants to strictly religious organizations (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve returned $46 billion to taxpayers in 2009 (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve has promised $5,700 billion ($5.7 trillion) in bailout payments (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve profits for 2009 are only 0.1% (1/10 of one percent) of its bailout promises (3+/0- justifications)
• The federal government may be infiltrating social networking sites (1+/0- justifications)
• US federal criminal law forbids torture (1+/0- justifications)
• DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law (1+/0- justifications)
• Vice President Dick Cheney is guilty of conspiring to torture, a US federal criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment or death (4+/0- justifications)
• Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• Nuclear power in the US is insured by the federal government (and therefore the US taxpayer) (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve refuses to reveal why Saddam Hussein had $750 million of crisp currency when he was captured (2+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve lied for 17 years that it did not keep records of its meetings (1+/0- justifications)
• US Federal judges try to create secret decisions (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve refuses to reveal to which institutions it lends money out of a fear of a run on those institutions (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve caused the 2008 financial crisis (1+/0- justifications)
• Short-tme working programs maintain a large reserve of well-trained employees for when the demand for labor increases (1+/0- justifications)
• As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner supervised Citibank's actions that lead to the largest bailout of any company (1+/0- justifications)
• U.S. federal estate and gift taxes produce 1% of federal revenue (1+/0- justifications)
• The Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve owned Goldman Sachs stock while that company applied for recognition as a bank-holding company violating Federal Reserve policy. After receiing a clandstine waiver for his violation, he began purchasing more Goldman Sachs stock. (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve is corrupt (1+/0- justifications)
• It's possible to be served in the U.S. 9th federal circuit via e-mail (1+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is paramilitarizing local and state US law enforcement agencies (3+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies more dangerous towards their public (4+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies less capable of performing their work (4+/0- justifications)
• The federal governments 1033 program has transferred $2.6B worth of military equipment to local and state law enforcement agencies since 1997 (1+/0- justifications)