GRITtv: Mary Bottari: Auditing the Fed: a Progressive Win

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Channel: Laura Flanders & Friends · 2010 · News & Politics

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Finally, bipartisan agreement and a strike of progress in government regulation of the financial industry: In a unanimous vote of 96-0, the Senate passed an amendment to open the Federal Resere to a one -time audit of its lending between Decemeber 2007 to the present.  Led by Ron Paul and Alan Grayson in the House and Bernie Sanders in the Senate and pushed by our friends at FireDogLake, the bill now heads to conference.

Mary Bottari of BankstersUSA.org and the Center for Media and Democracy weighs in on a hard-fought victory for Main Street over Wall Street.

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