HR 6550 Bill proposed by Dennis Kucinich

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(Original Signature of Member)

111TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. ll

To create a full employment economy as a matter of national economic
defense; to provide for public investment in capital infrastructure; to
provide for reducing the cost of public investment; to retire public debt;
to stabilize the Social Security retirement system; to restore the authority
of Congress to create and regulate money, modernize and provide stability
for the monetary system of the United States, retire public debt and
reduce the cost of public investment, and for other public purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Mr. KUCINICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on _____________________

A BILL

To create a full employment economy as a matter of national
economic defense; to provide for public investment in
capital infrastructure; to provide for reducing the cost
of public investment; to retire public debt; to stabilize
the Social Security retirement system; to restore the
authority of Congress to create and regulate money,
modernize and provide stability for the monetary system
of the United States, retire public debt and reduce the
cost of public investment, and for other public purposes.

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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Emergency
5 Employment Defense Act of 2010’’.
6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.
7 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds as follows:
8 (1) Nearly 15,000,000 Americans are currently
9 unemployed, another 12,000,000 estimated Ameri
10 cans are underemployed, wages are stagnant and
11 millions of Americans are being asked to take pay
12 cuts.
13 (2) Over 43,000,000 Americans live below the
14 poverty line, 49,000,000 of Americans go to bed
15 hungry at night, and an estimated 3,000,000 Ameri
16 cans are homeless.
17 (3) An all-time high of over 1,500,000 non
18 business bankruptcies were filed through June,
19 2010, and the small business failure rate in America
20 recently hit 12 percent.
21 (4) More than 2,000,000 homes have been lost
22 to foreclosure and millions of homeowners are falling
23 behind in their mortgage payments; the housing
24 market in terms of construction and sales has un
25 dergone an historic decline; and the declining value

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1 of housing means Americans’ largest single invest
2 ment, the home, is no longer a safe harbor for sav
3 ings, nest eggs, social mobility or the transfer of
4 generational wealth.
5 (5) Notwithstanding recent passage of the Pa
6 tient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a
7 privatized health care system has made quality
8 health care beyond the reach of most Americans.
9 (6) The cost of higher education has put higher
10 academic attainment outside the reach of millions
11 more young Americans, and the current generation
12 of young Americans will not be able to attain the
13 quality of life of their parents, reversing a long
14 standing trend.
15 (7) Retired Americans are losing confidence
16 that employment levels will be sufficient to ensure
17 Social Security will have resources to guarantee 100
18 percent of the promised benefits. A mechanism is
19 needed to assure retired American’s of Social Secu
20 rity’s viability.
21 (8) The American Institute of Architects has
22 estimated that there are $3 trillion in unmet infra
23 structure needs. Cities and States, urban and rural
24 areas all have an urgent need to rebuild and repair
25 roads, bridges, railroads, water systems, sewer sys-

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1 tems and other infrastructure but lack the necessary
2 funds, bond-issuing capacity and other needs which
3 has led to America’s infrastructure falling into dis
4 repair.
5 (9) The United States is not financially capable
6 of capitalizing on the burgeoning demand for wind,
7 solar and other renewable energy technologies which
8 reduce the cost of energy and help protect the envi
9 ronment, the continued use of non-renewable ener
10 gies such as coal and oil create a national security
11 crisis as well as long-term economic vulnerability.
12 (10) The annual United States trade deficit is
13 $380 billion, and the flow of jobs out of America has
14 been accelerated by trade agreements which have not
15 protected the rights of workers, the environment or
16 human rights.
17 (11) Tax cuts to top brackets cost the Federal
18 Government in excess of $1 trillion, yet have failed
19 to create significant numbers of new jobs.
20 (12) The monetary policies of the Board of
21 Governors of the Federal Reserve System have com
22 pounded the economic crisis by failing to take deci
23 sive action to move the economy forward, Wall
24 Street—which was bailed out by the American peo
25 ple—is not investing its rising assets in Main Street

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1 America, and individual investors are beginning to
2 turn away from the stock market.
3 (13) Some banks, many of which received gov
4 ernment bailouts, are not investing in small busi
5 nesses, nor in the creation of jobs, the private sector
6 is not creating jobs, and in fact most businesses are
7 freezing their employment levels.
8 (14) The country is stymied by competing
9 forces: a desire to put people to work and an aver
10 sion to borrowing money to create programs to do
11 so.
12 (15) Confidence in the United States’ economic
13 leadership at home and around the world is waning,
14 the value of our currency cannot be securely main
15 tained, and no other path to economic recovery ex
16 ists which will create the changes necessary to put
17 people back to work, invest in rebuilding America’s
18 infrastructure, i.e. highway, rail, airport, harbors,
19 light rail, communication, shipping, water, sewer,
20 education, and civil defense.
21 (16) The aforementioned conditions require
22 comprehensive action by the United States Congress
23 to create full employment, invest in America and se
24 cure our Nation’s long-term economic, social and po-

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1 litical future; and that such action is within our
2 Constitutional right and responsibility.
3 (17) The authority to create money is a sov
4 ereign power vested in the Congress under Article I,
5 Section 8 of the Constitution.
6 (18) The enactment of the Federal Reserve Act
7 in 1913 by Congress effectively delegated the sov
8 ereign power to create money, to the Federal Re
9 serve system and private financial industry.
10 (19) This ceding of Constitutional power has
11 contributed materially to a multitude of monetary
12 and financial afflictions, including—
13 (A) growing and unreasonable concentra
14 tion of wealth;
15 (B) unbridled expansion of national debt,
16 both public and private;
17 (C) excessive reliance on taxation of citi
18 zens for raising public revenues;
19 (D) inflation of the currency;
20 (E) drastic increases in the cost of public
21 infrastructure investments;
22 (F) record levels of unemployment and
23 underemployment; and
24 (G) persistent erosion of the ability of Con
25 gress to exercise its Constitutional responsibil-

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1 ities to provide resources for the general welfare
2 of all the American people.
3 (20) A debt-based monetary system, where
4 money comes into existence primarily through pri
5 vate bank lending, can neither create, nor sustain, a
6 stable economic environment, but has proven to be
7 a source of chronic financial instability and frequent
8 crisis, as evidenced by the near collapse of the finan
9 cial system in 2008.
10 (21) Banks pyramided their value by spending
11 money into existence, greatly inflating the value of
12 bank holdings, inflating the value of their asset
13 bases, enticing unknowing investors to participate in
14 financing schemes like the bundling of subprime
15 mortgages, and ultimately bringing undercapitalized
16 banks and the entire financial system to the edge of
17 ruin, creating circumstances where the taxpayers of
18 the United States were called upon to save the
19 banks from their own imprudent money-issuing
20 practices, misspending and mis-investments. The
21 banks’ ability to create money out of nothing ulti
22 mately became the taxpayers’ liability, and raises a
23 fundamental question about a practice of money cre
24 ation which threatens the wealth of the American
25 people.

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1 (22) Abolishing private money creation can be
2 achieved with minimal disruption to current banking
3 operations, regulation, and supervision.
4 (23) The creation of money by private financial
5 institutions as interest-bearing debts should cease
6 once and for all.
7 (24) Reclaiming the power of the Federal Gov
8 ernment to create money, and to spend or lend
9 money into circulation as needed, eliminates the
10 need to treat money as a Federal liability or to pay
11 interest charges on the Nation’s money supply to fi
12 nancial institutions; it also renders unnecessary the
13 undue influence of private financial institutions over
14 public policy.
15 (25) Under the current Federal Reserve Sys
16 tem, the persons responsible for the conduct of
17 United States monetary policy have been unaccount
18 able to the Congress and the Nation, have resisted
19 auditing by the General Accounting Office, and have
20 claimed exemptions from some Federal statutes, in
21 cluding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that apply to
22 all agencies of the Federal Government.
23 (26) The conduct of United States monetary
24 policy by the Board of Governors of the Federal Re
25 serve System, and specifically the failure of Board

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1 members to safeguard the financial system against
2 wholesale fraud and abuse of citizens, demonstrates
3 the risks of maintaining a system wherein the power
4 to create and regulate money has been delegated to
5 private individuals who are unaccountable to the
6 People of the United States in any way, even
7 through their representatives in Congress.
8 (27) The Board of Governors of the Federal
9 Reserve System has acted unilaterally to create and
10 spend $1.25 trillion for the purpose of acquiring
11 mortgage-backed securities, in disregard for the
12 Constitutional requirement that all Federal Govern
13 ment spending originate in the House of Representa
14 tives.
15 (28) An examination of the historical record
16 demonstrates that the exercise of control by the
17 United States Government over the money system
18 has provided greater moderation in the supply of
19 money and promoting the general welfare, and has
20 been indispensable in times of national emergency
21 for generating resources required to support public
22 investment, provide for national defense, and pro
23 mote the general welfare, and is therefore superior
24 to private control over the money system.

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1 (29) As our money system is a key pillar in
2 maintaining general economic welfare and as the
3 Federal Reserve System and its private banking
4 partners has consistently failed to promote or pre
5 serve the general welfare, it is essential that Con
6 gress, in the name of protecting the economic lives
7 of the American people and the long-term security of
8 our Nation, reassume the powers and responsibilities
9 granted to it by the Constitution.
10 (b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are as fol
11 lows:
12 (1) To create a full employment economy as a
13 matter of national economic defense; to provide for
14 public investment in capital infrastructure; to pro
15 vide for reducing the cost of public investment; to
16 retire public debt; to stabilize the Social Security re
17 tirement system; to restore the authority of Con
18 gress to create and regulate money, to modernize
19 and provide stability for the monetary system of the
20 United States, and for other public purposes.
21 (2) To abolish the creation of money, or pur
22 chasing power, by private persons through lending
23 against deposits, by means of fractional reserve
24 banking, or by any other means.

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1 (3) To enable the Federal Government to invest
2 or lend new money into circulation as authorized by
3 Congress and to provide means for public investment
4 in capital infrastructure.
5 (4) To incorporate the Federal Reserve System
6 into the Executive Branch under the United States
7 Treasury, and to make other provisions for reorga
8 nization of the Federal Reserve System.
9 (5) To provide for an orderly transition.
10 (6) To make other provisions necessary to ac
11 complish the purposes of this Act.
12 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
13 (a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this Act, the fol
14 lowing definitions shall apply:
15 (1) BUREAU.—The term ‘‘Bureau’’ means the
16 Bureau of the Federal Reserve established under
17 section 314 of title 31, United States Code, as added
18 by section 303.
19 (2) DEPOSIT.—The term ‘‘deposit’’—
20 (A) has the meaning given such term in
21 section 3(l) of the Federal Deposit Insurance
22 Act); and
23 (B) includes—

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1 (i) a member account (as defined in
2 section 101(5) of the Federal Credit Union
3 Act) in a credit union; and
4 (ii) any transaction account.
5 (3) DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION.—The term ‘‘de
6 pository institution’’—
7 (A) has the same meaning as in section 3
8 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; and
9 (B) includes any credit union (as defined
10 in section 101 of the Federal Credit Union
11 Act).
12 (4) INSTRUMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS OF THE
13 UNITED STATES; TREASURY INSTRUMENTS.—The
14 terms ‘‘instrument of indebtedness of the United
15 States’’ and ‘‘Treasury instrument’’ include any obli
16 gation issued under subchapter I of chapter 31 of
17 title 31, United States Code.
18 (5) MEMBER BANK.—The term ‘‘member bank’’
19 has the same meaning as in the first section of the
20 Federal Reserve Act.
21 (6) MONEY.—The term ‘‘money’’ refers to
22 United States Money, as established under title I.
23 (7) MONETARY AUTHORITY.—The term ‘‘Mone
24 tary Authority’’ means the Monetary Authority es
25 tablished under section 302.

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1 (8) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
2 the Secretary of the Treasury.
3 (9) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the same
4 meaning as in section 3 of the Federal Deposit In
5 surance Act.
6 (10) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The term ‘‘effective
7 date’’ means the date determined and published in
8 the Federal Register by the Secretary, during the
9 90-day period beginning on the date of the enact
10 ment of this Act, that—
11 (A) is not less than 1 year after such date
12 of enactment and not more than 2 years after
13 such date; and
14 (B) is the date on which the designated
15 provisions of this Act take effect.
16 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO
17 THE FDIA.—Section 3(l) of the Federal Deposit Insurance
18 Act (12 U.S.C. 1813(l)) is amended by adding at the end
19 the following:
20 ‘‘Such term does not include any amount on which any
21 interest is paid or which is received or held by a bank
22 or savings association pursuant to a loan agreement for
23 a fixed term of time (as determined without regard to any
24 designation on the agreement as a loan, certificate, or
25 other particular instrument).’’.

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1 SEC. 4. COORDINATION WITH OTHER LAW.
2 (a) IN GENERAL.—This Act shall supersede any pro
3 vision of Federal law in effect on the day before the date
4 of the enactment of this Act that is inconsistent with any
5 provision of this Act but only to the extent of such incon
6 sistency.
7 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
8 Before the end of the 6-month period beginning on the
9 date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the
10 Treasury shall submit to the Congress a proposed draft
11 of legislation of the Monetary Authority that, if enacted,
12 would implement such technical and conforming amend
13 ments as the Monetary Authority may recommend—
14 (1) to repeal the provisions of law referred to
15 in subsection (a) that are inconsistent with this Act;
16 and
17 (2) to further clarify and implement the provi
18 sions of this Act.
19 TITLE I—ORIGINATION OF
20 UNITED STATES MONEY
21 SEC. 101. EXERCISE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO
22 CREATE MONEY.
23 (a) IN GENERAL.—Pursuant to the exercise by the
24 Congress of the authority contained in the 5th clause of
25 section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of the United
26 States of America—

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1 (1) the authority to create money within the
2 United States shall hereafter reside exclusively with
3 the Federal Government; and
4 (2) the money so created shall be known as
5 United States Money and denominated and ex
6 pressed as provided in section 5101 of title 31,
7 United States Code.
8 (b) EXERCISE OF SOVEREIGN POWER.—The creation
9 of United States Money under this Act is the legal expres
10 sion of the sovereign power of the Nation and confers upon
11 its bearer an unconditional means of payment.
12 (c) LIMITATION ON EXPRESSION.—Beginning on the
13 effective date—
14 (1) only the coin, notes, or other forms of legal
15 tender, including electronic currency, originated by
16 the United States Treasury under the authority of
17 this Act shall be deemed as United States money;
18 and
19 (2) it shall be unlawful for any person to des
20 ignate any credit, note, bond, script or other finan
21 cial instrument as United States Money.
22 SEC. 102. UNLAWFUL FOR PERSONS TO CREATE MONEY.
23 Any person who creates or originates United States
24 money by lending against deposits, through so-called frac
25 tional reserve banking, or by any other means, after the

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1 effective date shall be fined under title 18, United States
2 Code, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.
3 SEC. 103. PRODUCTION OF UNITED STATES MONEY.
4 (a) COMMENCING FULL PRODUCTION OF UNITED
5 STATES CURRENCY.—Section 5115 of title 31, United
6 States Code, is amended by striking subsections (a) and
7 (b) and inserting the following new subsections:
8 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to furnish suitable
9 notes for circulation as United States money, the Sec
10 retary of the Treasury shall cause plates and dies to be
11 engraved in the best manner to guard against counterfeits
12 and fraudulent alterations, and shall have printed there
13 from and numbered such quantities of such notes of the
14 denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500,
15 $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 as may be required.
16 ‘‘(b) FORM AND TENOR.—United States currency
17 notes for circulation as United States money shall be in
18 form and tenor as directed by the Secretary of the Treas
19 ury.’’.
20 (b) CEASING PRODUCTION OF FEDERAL RESERVE
21 NOTES.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall wind-down
22 and cease production of Federal reserve notes under the
23 8th undesignated paragraph of section 16 of the Federal
24 Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 418) as quickly as practicable
25 after the date of the enactment of this Act, but no later

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1 than the effective date, in coordination with the start-up
2 and maintenance of production of United States currency
3 under section 5115 of title 31, United States Code. The
4 Secretary shall ensure that at all times the amount of Fed
5 eral Reserve notes in circulation is sufficient to meet de
6 mand until the production of United States currency is
7 sufficient to meet such demand.
8 (c) CONTINUING CIRCULATION UNTIL RETIRE
9 MENT.—Any Federal Reserve notes in circulation shall
10 continue to be legal tender until retired in accordance with
11 applicable provisions of law.
12 SEC. 104. LEGAL TENDER.
13 (a) IN GENERAL.—United States Money shall enter
14 into general domestic circulation as full legal tender in
15 payment of all debts public and private.
16 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
17 Section 5103 of title 31, United States Code, is amended
18 by striking ‘‘(including Federal reserve notes and circu
19 lating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks)’’
20 and inserting ‘‘in the form of United States Money’’.
21 SEC. 105. DISBURSEMENTS TO BE DENOMINATED IN
22 UNITED STATES MONEY.
23 On the effective date, all United States Government
24 disbursements shall be denominated in United States
25 Money, the unit being the dollar, symbolized as $.

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1 SEC. 106. ORIGINATION IN LIEU OF BORROWING.
2 (a) IN GENERAL.—After the effective date, and sub
3 ject to limitations established by the United States Mone
4 tary Authority under provisions of section 302, the Sec
5 retary shall originate United States Money to address any
6 negative fund balances resulting from a shortfall in avail
7 able Government receipts to fund Government appropria
8 tions authorized by Congress under law.
9 (b) PROHIBITION ON GOVERNMENT BORROWING.—
10 After the effective date, unless otherwise provided by an
11 Act of the Congress enacted after such date—
12 (1) no amount may be borrowed by the Sec
13 retary from any source; and
14 (2) no amount may be borrowed by any Federal
15 agency or department, any independent establish
16 ment of the executive branch, or any other instru
17 mentality of the United States (other than a na
18 tional bank, Federal savings association, or Federal
19 credit union) from any source other than the Sec
20 retary.
21 (c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—No provision of this
22 Act shall be construed as preventing the Congress from
23 exercising its constitutional authority to borrow money on
24 the full faith and credit of the United States.
25 (d) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
26 On the effective date, chapter 31 of title 31, United States

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1 Code, is hereby repealed, subject to the retirement of out
2 standing instruments of indebtedness of the United States
3 in accordance with section 401.
4 SEC. 107. RETIREMENT OF INSTRUMENTS OF INDEBTED
5 NESS.
6 Before the effective date, the Secretary shall com
7 mence to retire all outstanding instruments of indebted
8 ness of the United States by payment in full of the amount
9 legally due the bearer in United States Money, as such
10 amounts become due.
11 SEC. 108. ACCOUNTING.
12 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall account for
13 the disbursement of United States Money and of current
14 fund balances through accounting reports maintained and
15 published by the Secretary and by departments and agen
16 cies of the United States Government.
17 (b) GAO AUDIT.—The Comptroller General of the
18 United States shall conduct an independent biennial audit.
19 TITLE II—ENTRY OF U.S. MONEY
20 INTO CIRCULATION
21 SEC. 201. ENTRY OF U.S. MONEY INTO CIRCULATION.
22 The Secretary shall cause United States Money to
23 enter into circulation by and through any of the following
24 means:

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1 (1) Any origination or disbursement of funds to
2 accomplish Federal expenditures authorized and ap
3 propriated by an Act of the Congress.
4 (2) Any disbursement to retire outstanding in
5 struments of indebtedness of the Federal Govern
6 ment or the Secretary of the Treasury as such in
7 struments become due.
8 (3) Any contribution authorized by an Act of
9 the Congress subject to any limitation established by
10 the Monetary Authority to the Revolving Fund es
11 tablished in section 302 of this Act.
12 (4) Any action provided for in the transitional
13 arrangements specified in title IV of this Act, includ
14 ing the conversion of all deposits in transaction ac
15 counts into United States Money.
16 (5) Any exercise of ‘‘lender of last resort’’ emer
17 gency authorities under the emergency procedures
18 specified in section 305.
19 (6) Any purchase of stock in a Federal reserve
20 bank from a member bank and of any other assets
21 as prescribed under the Federal Reserve Act as re
22 quired to accomplish the purposes of section 301.
23 (7) Any other means, and for any other purpose
24 explicitly authorized by an Act of the Congress that
25 becomes law after the effective date of this Act.

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1 TITLE III—RECONSTITUTION OF
2 THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
3 SEC. 301. RECONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE.
4 (a) GOVERNMENT ACQUISITION OF ALL NET ASSETS
5 OF FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.—On the effective date,
6 the Secretary shall purchase on behalf of the United
7 States all net assets in the Federal Reserve System, in
8 cluding the Federal reserve banks, according to the rules
9 specified in the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 288) for
10 this purpose.
11 (b) REPAYMENT OF RESERVES.—Any reserves of any
12 member bank that is held by any Federal reserve bank
13 shall be returned to the member bank in the form of
14 United States Money, subject to the provisions contained
15 in sections 401 and 402(b).
16 SEC. 302. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES MONE
17 TARY AUTHORITY.
18 (a) MONETARY AUTHORITY.—
19 (1) ESTABLISHMENT.—
20 (A) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby estab
21 lished the Monetary Authority as an authority
22 within the Department of the Treasury under
23 the general oversight of the Secretary of the
24 Treasury.

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1 (B) AUTONOMY OF MONETARY AUTHOR2
ITY.—The Secretary of the Treasury may not
3 intervene in any matter or proceeding before
4 the Monetary Authority, unless otherwise spe
5 cifically provided by law.
6 (C) INDEPENDENCE OF MONETARY AU7
THORITY.—The Secretary of the Treasury may
8 not delay, prevent, or intervene in the issuance
9 of any regulation or other determination of the
10 Monetary Authority, including the determina
11 tion o the amounts of money to be originated
12 and most efficient method of disbursement con
13 sistent with the appropriations of Congress and
14 the statutory objectives of monetary policy as
15 specified in this Act.
16 (2) MEMBERSHIP.—
17 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Monetary Author
18 ity shall consist of 9 public members appointed
19 by the president, by and with the advice and
20 consent of the Senate.
21 (B) TERMS.—
22 (i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided
23 in subparagraph (E), each member of the
24 Monetary Authority shall be appointed to a
25 term of 6 years.

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1 (ii) CONTINUATION OF SERVICE.—
2 Each member of the Monetary Authority
3 may continue to serve after the expiration
4 of the term of office to which such member
5 was appointed until a successor has been
6 appointed and qualified.
7 (C) POLITICAL AFFILIATION.—Not more
8 than 4 of the members of the Monetary Author
9 ity may be members of the same political party.
10 (D) VACANCY.—
11 (i) IN GENERAL.—Any vacancy on the
12 Monetary Authority shall be filled in the
13 manner in which the original appointment
14 was made.
15 (ii) INTERIM APPOINTMENTS.—Any
16 member appointed to fill a vacancy occur
17 ring before the expiration of the term for
18 which such member’s predecessor was ap
19 pointed shall be appointed only for the re
20 mainder of such term.
21 (E) STAGGERED TERMS.—Of the members
22 first appointed to the Monetary Authority after
23 the enactment of this Act—
24 (i) 1 shall be appointed for a term of
25 2 years;

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1 (ii) 2 shall be appointed for a term of
2 3 years;
3 (iii) 2 shall be appointed for a term of
4 4 years;
5 (iv) 2 shall be appointed for a term of
6 5 years; and
7 (v) 2 shall be appointed for the full
8 term of 6 years.
9 (3) CHAIRPERSON.—One of the members of the
10 Monetary Authority shall be designated by the Presi
11 dent as the Chairperson of the Monetary Authority.
12 (4) DUTIES.—The Monetary Authority shall—
13 (A) establish monetary supply policy and
14 monitor the Nation’s monetary status; and
15 (B) carry out such other responsibilities as
16 the President may delegate to the Monetary
17 Authority or that may be provided by an Act of
18 Congress.
19 (5) GOVERNING PRINCIPLE OF MONETARY POL
20 ICY.—The Monetary Authority shall pursue a mone
21 tary policy based on the governing principle that the
22 supply of money in circulation should not become in
23 flationary nor deflationary in and of itself, but will
24 be sufficient to allow goods and services to move
25 freely in trade in a balanced manner. The Monetary

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1 Authority shall maintain long run growth of the
2 monetary and credit aggregates commensurate with
3 the economy’s long run potential to increase produc
4 tion, so as to promote effectively the goals of max
5 imum employment, stable prices, and moderate long
6 term interest rates.
7 (6) MEETINGS.—The Monetary Authority shall
8 meet on a regular basis subject to the call of the
9 Chairperson, the Secretary, or a majority of the
10 members.
11 (7) PAY.—The members of the Monetary Au
12 thority shall receive a salary at annual rates equal
13 to the annual rate determined under section 5 of
14 title 28, United States Code, for an associate justice.
15 (8) STAFF.—The Monetary Authority may ap
16 point and establish the pay of such employees as the
17 Monetary Authority determines is appropriate to as
18 sist the Monetary Authority to carry out the duties
19 imposed under this section.
20 (c) RESPONSIBILITY OF SECRETARY.—The Secretary
21 shall regulate the monetary supply in reasonable accord
22 ance with targets established by the Monetary Authority.
23 (d) REPORTS ON DISCREPANCIES.—The Secretary
24 shall report to the Congress any discrepancy between any

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1 monetary target and the monetary supply in excess of 0.5
2 percent at the end of each quarter.
3 SEC. 303. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BUREAU OF THE FED
4 ERAL RESERVE.
5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 3 of title
6 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
7 the following new section:
8 ‘‘§ 314. Bureau of the Federal Reserve
9 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established
10 the Bureau of the Federal Reserve as a bureau within the
11 Department of the Treasury (hereafter in this section re
12 ferred to as the ‘Bureau’).
13 ‘‘(b) MANAGEMENT.—
14 ‘‘(1) COMMISSIONER.—The management of the
15 Bureau shall be vested in a Commissioner who, with
16 the assistance of the Deputy Commissioner and such
17 staff as the Commissioner may appoint, shall carry
18 out the duties vested in the Bureau and the Com
19 missioner.
20 ‘‘(2) DEPUTY COMMISSIONER.—There is hereby
21 established within the Bureau the position of Deputy
22 Commissioner.
23 ‘‘(3) APPOINTMENT.—The Commissioner and
24 the Deputy Commissioner shall be appointed by the

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1 president, by and with the advice and consent of the
2 Senate.
3 ‘‘(4) TERMS.—
4 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Commissioner
5 and the Deputy Commissioner shall each be ap
6 pointed to a term of 7 years.
7 ‘‘(B) STAGGERED TERMS.—Notwith
8 standing subparagraph (A), the person first ap
9 pointed Deputy Commissioner shall be ap
10 pointed to a term of 4 years.
11 ‘‘(5) VACANCY.—
12 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Any vacancy on the
13 Bureau shall be filled in the manner in which
14 the original appointment was made.
15 ‘‘(B) INTERIM APPOINTMENTS.—Any
16 member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring
17 before the expiration of the term for which such
18 member’s predecessor was appointed shall be
19 appointed only for the remainder of such term.
20 ‘‘(c) DUTIES.—
21 ‘‘(1) MONETARY POLICY.—The Bureau shall—
22 ‘‘(A) administer, under the direction of the
23 Secretary, the origination and entry into cir
24 culation of United States Money, subject to the

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1 limitations established by the Monetary Author
2 ity; and
3 ‘‘(B) administer lending of United States
4 Money to authorized depository institutions, as
5 described in section 403 (‘Revolving Fund’) to
6 ensure that—
7 ‘‘(i) money creation is solely a func
8 tion of the United States Government; and
9 ‘‘(ii) fractional reserve lending is
10 ended.
11 ‘‘(2) TRANSFERRED FUNCTIONS.—After the ef
12 fective date, the Bureau shall exercise all functions
13 consistent with this Act which, before such date,
14 were carried out under the direction of the Board of
15 Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
16 ‘‘(3) ITEMIZATION BY SECRETARY.—Not less
17 than 90 days before the effective date, the Secretary
18 and the Monetary Authority shall itemize—
19 ‘‘(A) the functions of the Board of Gov
20 ernors of the Federal Reserve System that are
21 transferred to the Bureau pursuant to para
22 graph (2); and
23 ‘‘(B) the provisions of the Federal Reserve
24 Act and other provisions of Federal law, relat
25 ing to the functions so transferred, in the appli-

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1 cation of which the term ‘Bureau’ (as estab
2 lished under this section) shall be substituted
3 for the term ‘Board of Governors of the Federal
4 Reserve System’ or ‘Board’, as the case may
5 be.’’.
6 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections
7 for subchapter I of chapter 3 of title 31, United States
8 Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
9 item:
‘‘314. Bureau of the Federal Reserve’’.
10 (c) ROLE OF BOARD AFTER ENACTMENT.—With ef
11 fect of the effective date, the Board of Governors of the
12 Federal Reserve System shall be dissolved.
13 SEC. 304. FORECASTING OF DISBURSEMENT REQUIRE
14 MENTS.
15 The Secretary shall—
16 (1) forecast disbursement requirements on a
17 daily, monthly, and annual basis;
18 (2) provide such forecasts to the Congress and
19 the public;
20 (3) integrate forecasts with the Federal budget
21 process;
22 (4) maintain a sufficient research capability to
23 continuously and effectively assess the impact of dis
24 bursement of United States Money on all aspects of
25 the domestic and international economies; and

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1 (5) report to the Congress and the public regu
2 larly on the economic impact of disbursements of
3 United States Money and the status of the monetary
4 supply.
5 SEC. 305. LENDER OF LAST RESORT; EMERGENCY PROCE
6 DURES.
7 (a) RECOMMENDATION OF THE PRESIDENT UPON
8 RECOMMENDATION OF EMERGENCY BOARD.—The Mone
9 tary Authority may not exercise any authority under the
10 3rd undesignated paragraph of section 13 of the Federal
11 Reserve Act unless—
12 (1) the Emergency Board established under
13 subsection (b) recommends, upon a vote of 2/3 of
14 the members, to the House of Representatives and
15 the Senate, that the House of Representatives and
16 the Senate adopt a concurrent resolution calling on
17 the President to certify that a national emergency
18 exists which requires the exercise of such authority;
19 (2) the House of Representatives and the Sen
20 ate each adopt, by a vote of 2/3 of the members
21 present, a concurrent resolution calling on the Presi
22 dent to certify that a national emergency exists
23 which requires the exercise of such authority; and

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1 (3) the President issues a certification that a
2 national emergency exists which requires the exercise
3 of such authority by the Monetary Authority.
4 (b) EMERGENCY BOARD.—There is established for
5 purposes of this section the Emergency Board which shall
6 consist of the following members:
7 (1) The President.
8 (2) The Secretary of Commerce.
9 (3) The Secretary of Labor.
10 (4) The Secretary of the Treasury.
11 (5) The Speaker of the House of Representa
12 tives.
13 (6) The minority leader of the House of Rep
14 resentatives.
15 (7) The majority leader of the Senate.
16 (8) The minority leader of the Senate.
17 (9) The chairpersons and ranking members of
18 the Committee on Financial Services and the Com
19 mittee on Oversight and Government Reform of the
20 House of Representatives.
21 (10) The chairpersons and ranking members of
22 the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af
23 fairs and the Committee on Homeland Security and
24 Governmental Affairs of the Senate.

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1 (c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Except as provided in
2 subsection (a), no provision of this Act shall be construed
3 as affecting the authority of the Monetary Authority under
4 the 3rd undesignated paragraph of section 13 of the Fed
5 eral Reserve Act.
6 SEC. 306. SAVINGS PROVISIONS AND TRANSFER PROVI
7 SIONS.
8 (a) SAVINGS PROVISIONS.—
9 (1) EXISTING RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND OBLIGA
10 TIONS NOT AFFECTED.—The establishment of the
11 Bureau of the Federal Reserve shall not affect the
12 validity of any right, duty, or obligation of the
13 United States, the Bureau (as the successor to the
14 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
15 or any Federal reserve bank), or any other person
16 that—
17 (A) arises under any provision of law relat
18 ing to any function of the Board of Governors
19 of the Federal Reserve System transferred to
20 the Bureau by this title and amendments made
21 by this title; and
22 (B) existed on the day before the effective
23 date.
24 (2) CONTINUATION OF SUITS.—This Act shall
25 not abate any proceeding commenced by or against

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1 the Board of Governors (or any Federal reserve
2 bank) before the effective date with respect to any
3 function of the Board of Governors (or any Federal
4 reserve bank) transferred to the Bureau by this title,
5 except that the Bureau shall be substituted for the
6 Board of Governors (or Federal reserve bank) as a
7 party to any such proceeding as of the effective date.
8 (b) TRANSFER OF CERTAIN PERSONNEL.—
9 (1) IDENTIFYING EMPLOYEES FOR TRANS
10 FER.—The Secretary and the Chairman of the
11 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
12 shall—
13 (A) jointly determine the number of em
14 ployees of the Board necessary to perform or
15 support the functions of the Board of Gov
16 ernors that are transferred to the Monetary Au
17 thority (if any) and the Bureau of the Federal
18 Reserve pursuant to a provision of or amend
19 ment made by this title; and
20 (B) consistent with the number determined
21 under subparagraph (A), jointly identify em
22 ployees of the Board of Governors for transfer
23 in a manner that the Secretary and the Board
24 of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in
25 their sole discretion, determine to be equitable.

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1 (2) IDENTIFIED EMPLOYEES TRANSFERRED.—
2 All employees of the Board of Governors of the Fed
3 eral Reserve System identified under paragraph
4 (1)(B) shall be transferred to the Monetary Author
5 ity or the Bureau of the Federal Reserve, as the
6 case may be, for employment.
7 (3) FEDERAL RESERVE BANK EMPLOYEES.—
8 Employees of any Federal reserve bank, as of the
9 day before the transfer date for any employees of
10 the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys
11 tem, shall be treated as employees of the Board of
12 Governors for purposes of paragraph (1) and (2).
13 TITLE IV—TRANSITIONAL
14 ARRANGEMENTS
15 SEC. 401. CONVERSION OF FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES.
16 (a) IN GENERAL.—Before the end of the 120-day pe
17 riod beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act,
18 the Secretary shall establish the rules and procedures for
19 converting outstanding Federal reserve notes to United
20 States Money of equal face value.
21 (b) PROVISION OF SUPPLY SUFFICIENT FOR CON
22 VERSION AND ISSUANCE.—Before the end of the 150-day
23 period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act
24 and as Federal reserve notes are converted to United
25 States Money, the Secretary shall begin providing a suffi-

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1 cient quantity of United States Money to the domestic
2 banking system to allow for conversion of all outstanding
3 Federal reserve notes and the issuance of additional cur
4 rency as required.
5 (c) DISBURSAL OF FUNDS.—After the end of the
6 180-day period beginning on the date of the enactment
7 of this Act, all financial institutions within the United
8 States shall only disburse funds in United States Money,
9 whether as currency, an addition to an available account
10 balance, or other instrument.
11 (d) DISPOSAL OF OBSOLETE CURRENCY.—The Sec
12 retary shall promptly dispose of (in the manner provided
13 under section 5120(b) of title 31, United States Code, for
14 the disposal of obsolete United States currency) all Fed
15 eral reserve notes as they are returned in exchange for
16 United States Money.
17 (e) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
18 Effective at the end of the 150-day period beginning on
19 the date of the enactment of this Act, section 16 of the
20 Federal Reserve Act is amended by striking the 8th, 9th,
21 10th, 11th, and 12th undesignated paragraphs (12 U.S.C.
22 418, 419, 420, 421, and omitted, respectively).

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1 SEC. 402. REPLACING FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING
2 WITH THE LENDING OF UNITED STATES
3 MONEY.
4 (a) CONVERSION PROCESS.—
5 (1) DEPOSITS.—
6 (A) IN GENERAL.—All deposits at any de
7 pository institution shall be designated as and
8 treated as United States Money (either cash or
9 an electronic equivalent) and as transaction ac
10 counts.
11 (B) PROHIBITIONS.—In addition to sub
12 section (d), the following provisions shall apply
13 with respect to United States Money on deposit
14 in a transaction account at any depository insti
15 tution:
16 (i) INTEREST.—No interest may be
17 paid or may accrue on any United States
18 Money on deposit in a transaction account
19 at any depository institution.
20 (ii) DEPOSITS AS BAILMENT.—Any
21 United States Money on deposit in a trans
22 action account at any depository institu
23 tion shall—
24 (I) be treated as a bailment for
25 the mutual benefit of the parties and
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1 (II) as property held in trust as
2 bailed property, not be treated as an
3 asset of the depository institution or
4 as a source of credit.
5 (C) EXCEPTION FOR LONG-TERM SAVINGS
6 NOT SUBJECT TO DEPOSIT INSURANCE.—
7 (i) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (B)
8 shall not apply to any liability of deposi
9 tory institution to a customer for any
10 amount in an account at the depository in
11 stitution pursuant to a contract that re
12 stricts the availability of any such amount
13 for a fixed term and does not permit
14 amounts to be transferred in any manner
15 for the benefit of a third party.
16 (ii) FIXED-TERM SAVINGS NOT IN
17 SURED.—Any account described in clause
18 (i) may not be treated as a deposit, for
19 purposes of the Federal Deposit Insurance
20 Act, or as a share draft account, for pur
21 poses of the Federal Credit Union Act.
22 (2) OUTSTANDING CREDIT.—Any asset of a de
23 pository institution that results from credit extended
24 against, is attributable to, or has been accounted for

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1 wit
h respect to, amounts described in paragraph
2 (1)(A) shall, as of the effective date—
3 (A) be a liability of the depository institu
4 tion to the Federal Government; and
5 (B) as the outstanding balance is repaid
6 pursuant to its terms, shall be paid over to the
7 Federal Government.
8 (3) DEPOSIT IN REVOLVING FUND.—The mon
9 ies paid to the Federal Government shall be depos
10 ited into the Revolving Account established in sec
11 tion 403.
12 (4) IN GENERAL.—Before the effective date and
13 subject to the requirements of this section, the Mon
14 etary Authority shall establish and publish the ac
15 counting rules, pricing, and processes which will con
16 vert all bank credit in circulation as of the date of
17 such conversion, into United States legal tender
18 money.
19 (5) RETENTION OF INTEREST PAYMENTS.—A
20 depository institution may keep as income, any in
21 terest payment made by a customer to a depository
22 institution on an outstanding loan for which the de
23 pository institution became indebted to the Federal
24 Government under paragraph (2).

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1 (b) TREATMENT OF AMOUNTS ON RESERVE AT A
2 FEDERAL RESERVE BANK.—The Monetary Authority
3 shall determine, by the effective date, how the reserves of
4 a depository institution at a Federal reserve bank pursu
5 ant to section 19 of the Federal Reserve Act shall be treat
6 ed, so as to promote a seamless transition to the new sys
7 tem.
8 (c) ACCOUNTS IN GENERAL.—Before the effective
9 date, the Monetary Authority shall prescribe new lending
10 and accounting regulations for various types of accounts
11 including transaction accounts and time deposit accounts
12 described in subsections (d) and (e).
13 (d) TRANSACTION ACCOUNTS.—
14 (1) FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING ENDED.—
15 The regulations prescribed under subsection (c) shall
16 provide that—
17 (A) any depository institution shall have a
18 fiduciary responsibility for the money of any de
19 positor on deposit in a transaction account
20 which—
21 (i) shall be held for the exclusive use
22 of the account holder; and
23 (ii) may not be used by a depository
24 institution to fund loans or investments;

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1 (B) a dollar of United States Money shall
2 be on hand or in a Federal Government account
3 for each dollar in a transaction account; and
4 (C) a depository institution may charge a
5 reasonable fee for providing transaction account
6 services.
7 (2) TRANSACTION ACCOUNT DEFINED.—For
8 purposes of this section, the term, ‘‘transaction ac9
count’’—
10 (A) means a deposit or account on which
11 the depositor or account holder is permitted to
12 make withdrawals by negotiable or transferable
13 instrument, payment orders of withdrawal, tele14
phone transfers, or other similar items for the
15 purpose of making payments or transfers to
16 third persons or others; and
17 (B) includes demand deposits, negotiable
18 order of withdrawal accounts, savings deposits
19 subject to automatic transfers, and share draft
20 accounts.
21 (e) UNITED STATES MONEY AS SOURCE OF
22 LOANS.—After the effective date, all lending by depository
23 institutions may be accomplished only by the lending of
24 actual United States Money that is—

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1 (1) owned by the depository institution from
2 earnings and or capital contributions by investors;
3 (2) borrowed at interest from the Federal Gov4
ernment; or
5 (3) borrowed at interest through the issuance of
6 bonds or other interest-bearing securities by the
7 lending bank, to the extent that such bonds or secu8
rities are structured in a manner consistent with the
9 purposes of this Act.
10 (f) ENCOURAGEMENT OF PRIVATE, PROFIT-MAKING
11 MONEY LENDING ACTIVITY.—The regulations prescribed
12 and actions taken under this section shall be established
13 and taken in a manner that—
14 (1) encourages private, profit-making money
15 lending activity by banking institutions; and
16 (2) prohibits the creation of private money
17 through the establishment of lending credit against
18 depository receipts, sometimes referred to as ‘‘frac19
tional reserve banking’’.
20 SEC. 403. ESTABLISHMENT OF FEDERAL REVOLVING FUND.
21 (a) REVOLVING LOAN FUND.—Subject to provision
22 in advance in an appropriation Act, there is hereby estab23
lished a revolving loan fund in the Treasury of the United
24 States where amounts received from depository institu25
tions under terms specified in section 402 of this Act shall

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1 be deposited and made available for relending to banking
2 institutions and for other purposes.
3 (b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Revolving Fund shall be
4 administered by the Bureau under such terms and condi5
tions as the Secretary shall prescribe consistent with the
6 purposes of this Act.
7 (c) NATIONAL EMERGENCY.—In the event of a find8
ing by the President that a National Emergency exists,
9 and with the concurrence of the Congress in accordance
10 with the emergency procedures specified under section
11 305, the Secretary may draw upon up to 80 percent of
12 the funds on deposit in the Revolving Fund. Such funds
13 shall be returned to the Revolving Fund within 3 years
14 of the date of initial disbursement, either through repay15
ment of loans or through an Appropriation Act, unless the
16 Secretary receives from the Congress specific authoriza17
tion to extend the term of the loans. The authorization
18 of Congress shall be given by joint resolution..
19 TITLE V—ADDITIONAL
20 PROVISIONS
21 SEC. 501. DIRECT FUNDING OF INFRASTRUCTURE IM22
PROVEMENTS.
23 (a) REPORT REQUIRED ON OPPORTUNITIES FOR DI24
RECT FUNDING.—Before the effective date, the Secretary,
25 after consultation with the heads of Executive branch de-

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1 partments, agencies and independent establishments, shall
2 report to the Congress on opportunities to utilize direct
3 funding by the United States Government to modernize,
4 improve, and upgrade the physical economy of the United
5 States in such areas as transportation, agriculture, water
6 usage and availability, sewage systems, medical care, edu7
cation, and other infrastructure systems, to promote the
8 general welfare, and to stabilize the Social Security retire9
ment system.
10 (b) BROAD EQUITABLE DISPERSION OF FUNDING.—
11 Generally, any program recommended for direct funding
12 shall be undertaken throughout the Nation.
13 SEC. 502. INTEREST RATE CEILINGS.
14 (a) LIMIT ON AMOUNT OF FINANCING FEES.—The
15 total amount of interest charged by a financial institution
16 on any extension of loans (other than a mortgage) to any
17 individual borrower through amortization, including all
18 fees and service charges, shall not exceed the total amount
19 of the loan extended.
20 (b) LIMIT ON RATE.—The annual percentage rate
21 applicable to any loan of money may not exceed 8 percent
22 on unpaid balances, inclusive of all charges.
23 SEC. 503. AUTHORITY OF FDIC.
24 Except as provided in section 402 and the amend25
ment made by section 3(b), no provision of this Act shall

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1 be construed as altering or affecting any authority or func2
tion of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. No
3 later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of
4 this Act, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the
5 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shall study and
6 make recommendations to the Congress regarding any
7 changes in authorities, including expanded supervision and
8 monitoring, required to enhance the oversight and regu9
latory roles of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
10 under this Act.
11 SEC. 504. MONETARY GRANTS TO STATES.
12 (a) IN GENERAL.—Each year, the Monetary Author13
ity shall instruct the Secretary to disperse grants over a
14 12-month period to the States equal to 25 percent of the
15 money created under this title in the prior year. In the
16 first year the amount of such grants shall be 25 percent
17 of the anticipated money creation in that first year.
18 (b) USE OF GRANTS FOR BROAD-BASED PUR19
POSES.—The States may use such funds in broadly des20
ignated areas of public infrastructure, education, health
21 care and rehabilitation, pensions, and paying for unfunded
22 Federal mandates.
23 SEC. 505. EDUCATION FUNDING PROGRAM.
24 Before the end of the 120-day period beginning on
25 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in

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1 cooperation with the Secretary of Education, shall provide
2 recommendations to the Congress for a program to help
3 fund our educational system that will put the United
4 States on par with other highly developed nations, and to
5 sufficiently provide for universal pre-kindergarten fully
6 funded State programs for elementary and secondary edu7
cation and universal college at every 2- and 4-year public
8 institution of higher learning and create a learning envi9
ronment so that every child has an opportunity to reach
10 their full educational potential.
11 SEC. 506. SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS.
12 The Secretary in consultation with the Board of
13 Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
14 and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds shall sub15
mit to the Monetary Authority any requests to cover im16
pending deficits in Social Security Trust Fund accounts.
17 SEC. 507. INITIAL MONETARY DIVIDEND TO CITIZENS.
18 (a) IN GENERAL.—Before the effective date, the Sec19
retary, in cooperation with the Monetary Authority, shall
20 make recommendations to the Congress for payment of
21 a Citizens Dividend as a tax-free grant to all United
22 States citizens residing in the United States in order to
23 provide liquidity to the banking system at the commence24
ment of this Act, before governmental infrastructure ex25
penditures have had a chance to work into circulation.

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1 (b) STUDY OF EFFECTS OF CITIZENS DIVIDEND.—
2 The Secretary shall maintain a thorough study of the ef3
fects of the Citizens Dividend observing its effects on pro4
duction and consumption, prices, morale, and other eco5
nomic and fiscal factors.
6 SEC. 508. UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE FUNDING.
7 The Congress shall be aware that funding through
8 this Act is available for a universal health care plan as
9 may be enacted by Congress.
10 SEC. 509. RESOLVING THE MORTGAGE CRISIS.
11 The Congress shall be aware that funding through
12 this Act is available for Congressional enactments for re13
solving aspects of the mortgage crisis.
14 SEC. 510. INTEREST FREE LENDING TO LOCAL GOVERN15
MENTAL BODIES.
16 Before the end of the 180-day period beginning on
17 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall
18 provide recommendations to the Congress for a program
19 of interest-free lending of United States Money to State
20 and local governmental entities, including school boards
21 and emergency fire services for infrastructure improve22
ments under their control and within their jurisdictions,
23 based on per capita amounts and other criteria to assure
24 equity as determined by the Monetary Authority.

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Kucinich's revolutionary Bill HR 6550


[ Kucinich's Bill includes the following astounding objectives: "to restore the authority of Congress to create and regulate money... [and to] retire public debt..." ]


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Dennis Kucinich's revolutionary Bill H.R. 6550

February 19, 2011 at 11:08am

Dennis Kucinich's revolutionary Bill

On December 17th, 2010, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced one of the most radical monetary Bills presented to the House of Representatives since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Designated as Bill H.R. 6550, this proposed Act is also referred to as the 'National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2010'.

Kucinich's Bill includes the following astounding objectives: "to restore the authority of Congress to create and regulate money... [and to] retire public debt..."

One needs to read that again.


Restore the authority of Congress to create and regulate money? Retire public debt?

Does that really say what it seems to be saying?

What a revolutionary Bill!


H.R. 6550 is much more far-reaching than Ron Paul's valiant attempt to audit the Federal Reserve. This Bill would take us back 175 years to Andrew Jackson who killed central banking in the United States and became the last president to pay off the National Debt. And it would take us back to Abraham Lincoln who, 150 years ago, instructed the Treasury to bypass the banks and issue some 450 million debt-free 'greenbacks' to pay for the Union war effort during the Civil War.

Kucinich's Bill, if enacted as written, would take the power of money creation away from the banksters and return it to Congress as the Founding Fathers had originally intended. And in no time, the National Debt would be fully paid off with debt-free, interest-free U.S. Treasury dollars.

Such a scenario has long been the stuff of banksters' nightmares. According to a London Times editorial in 1865, alarmed at the success of Lincoln's greenbacks, "[America] will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world...That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."[1]

And if Congressman Kucinich and his sponsors are successful, America will indeed become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. And the other nations of the world will follow suit.

The enactment of Bill H.R. 6550 is sure to create an epidemic of incontinence among the banksters throughout the world. The sale of toilet paper and adult diapers is sure to rise as the term "Cover your ass" takes on a whole new meaning. Wall Street especially will smell like an Arkansas hog ranch as the financial elite vacate their offices along with their bowels.

For those lucky enough to live in South Dakota, it would be interesting to mosey on over to Mount Rushmore and see if Tom Jefferson and Abe Lincoln have broken into huge smiles.

While Representative Kucinich is to be congratulated for his courage, intellect, and patriotism in presenting this Bill, special recognition should go to Stephen Zarlenga and his colleagues at the American Monetary Institute (AMI) for doing much of the groundwork over the past number of years. (Visit www.monetary.org for the text of H.R. 6550 and for a 32 page AMI precursor to the Bill.)

Stephen Zarlenga, co-founder of the American Monetary Institute, has 35 years experience in finance, securities, insurance, mutual funds, real estate, and futures trading and is the author of the widely acclaimed 700 page tome, The Lost Science Of Money. Zarlenga and the AMI have been working on the genesis of this Bill for some time. Representative Kucinich has been a regular attendee and speaker at AMI events in Chicago for the last few years and has incorporated their monetary reform document in his Bill, H.R. 6550.

This monetary reform is based on three crucial areas, all of which must occur if the reform is to be truly effective.


1. Incorporate the Federal Reserve System into the U.S. Treasury where all new money is created by government as money, not interest-bearing debt, and spent into circulation to promote the general welfare; monitored to be neither inflationary nor deflationary.

2. Halt the banks' privilege to create money by ending the fractional reserve system in a gentle and elegant way. All the past monetized private credit is converted into U.S. government money. Banks then act as intermediaries accepting savings deposits and loaning them out to borrowers; what people think they do now.

3. Spend new money into circulation on infrastructure, including education and healthcare needed for a growing society, starting with the $3 trillion that the American Institute of Architects estimate is needed for infrastructure repair (roads, bridges, railroads, water systems, sewer systems, etc.); creating good jobs across the nation, re-invigorating local economies and re-funding government at all levels.


In Section 2 a), Findings, Kucinich targets the malfeasance and abysmal record of the Federal Reserve. The following selected paragraphs give a flavour of his controlled anger and serious intent.

(19) This ceding of Constitutional power [to the Federal Reserve] has contributed materially to a multitude of monetary and financial afflictions, including--

(A) growing and unreasonable concentration of wealth;

(B) unbridled expansion of national debt, both public and private;

(C) excessive reliance on taxation of citizens for raising public revenues;

(D) inflation of the currency;

(E) drastic increases in the cost of public infrastructure investments;

(F) record levels of unemployment and underemployment; and

(G) persistent erosion of the ability of Congress to exercise its Constitutional responsibilities to provide resources for the general welfare of all the American people.

(20) A debt-based monetary system, where money comes into existence primarily through private bank lending, can neither create, nor sustain, a stable economic environment, but has proven to be a source of chronic financial instability and frequent crisis, as evidenced by the near collapse of the financial system in 2008.

(21) Banks pyramided their value by spending money into existence, greatly inflating the value of bank holdings, inflating the value of their asset bases, enticing unknowing investors to participate in financing schemes like the bundling of subprime mortgages, and ultimately bringing undercapitalized banks and the entire financial system to the edge of ruin, creating circumstances where the taxpayers of the United States were called upon to save the banks from their own imprudent money-issuing practices, misspending and mis-investments. The banks' ability to create money out of nothing ultimately became the taxpayers' liability, and raises a fundamental question about a practice of money creation which threatens the wealth of the American people.

(22) Abolishing private money creation can be achieved with minimal disruption to current banking operations, regulation, and supervision.

(23) The creation of money by private financial institutions as interest-bearing debts should cease once and for all.

(24) Reclaiming the power of the Federal Government to create money, and to spend or lend money into circulation as needed, eliminates the need to treat money as a Federal liability or to pay interest charges on the Nation's money supply to financial institutions; it also renders unnecessary the undue influence of private financial institutions over public policy.

(25) Under the current Federal Reserve System, the persons responsible for the conduct of United States monetary policy have been unaccountable to the Congress and the Nation, have resisted auditing by the General Accounting Office, and have claimed exemptions from some Federal statutes, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that apply to all agencies of the Federal Government.

(26) The conduct of United States monetary policy by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and specifically the failure of Board members to safeguard the financial system against wholesale fraud and abuse of citizens, demonstrates the risks of maintaining a system wherein the power to create and regulate money has been delegated to private individuals who are unaccountable to the People of the United States in any way, even through their representatives in Congress.

(29) As our money system is a key pillar in maintaining general economic welfare and as the Federal Reserve System and its private banking partners has consistently failed to promote or preserve the general welfare, it is essential that Congress, in the name of protecting the economic lives of the American people and the long-term security of our Nation, reassume the powers and responsibilities granted to it by the Constitution.


Hear! Hear! All freedom-loving Americans would chant. This legislation should be studied and supported for the redemption it offers to us all, especially the poor and the down-trodden.

Not only Americans, but the entire world should sit up and take note of Dennis Kucinich's revolutionary Bill. Citizens in other countries should download copies for their own political representatives and agitate for reform in their own countries. This Bill, if enacted, has the capability of creating widespread prosperity, peace, and goodwill.

Here in Ireland we are in the middle of a General Election campaign where there is much debate and controversy about banking fraud, the collapse of the economy, and the involvement of EU/IMF predators who are intent on eating us alive. Not one of our so-called future leaders of the State has presented us with an intelligent, effective alternative to the banksters' grip of death.



And the mainstream media, with all its political debates, opinions, op-eds, and pontificating economics gurus, has not offered a single original or radical idea. Why not? Are they all so lacking in intelligence and innovation? Are they all so hopelessly under-informed about the history of banking and economics? Or do they all belong to the banksters, body and soul, and have been charged with keeping revolutionary new ideas out of the public domain?



Ireland sorely needs a Dennis Kucinich, or a single politician of integrity who will run with his baton. Is it possible to find such a creature among our gaggle of chancers and deadbeats? We'd better not hold our breath.

Nonetheless, let's all hope that Congressman Kucinich prevails with this Bill and that it will not be defeated or emasculated by those in the pay or the influence of the Money Power.

With the enactment of Bill H.R. 6550 the world may not become a Utopia overnight, but it will certainly move us a lot closer to the joyous abundance of the Garden of Eden since the day Adam and Eve got the boot.


[1] This quote is attributed to Lord George J. Goschen, Director of the Bank of England and later, Chancellor of the Exchequer. .

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By: momike

The Monetary Shift
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Perhaps many were busy during the holiday season and Bill H.R. 6550 introduced by Representative Dennis Kucinich on Dec.17th escaped your notice.It is truly a revolutionary Bill as written.Some excerpts from the link below include the following:

"On December 17th, 2010, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced one of the most radical monetary Bills presented to the House of Representatives since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913."

"Kucinich's Bill includes the following astounding objectives: "to restore the authority of Congress to create and regulate money... [and to] retire public debt..."

"Kucinich's Bill, if enacted as written, would take the power of money creation away from the banksters and return it to Congress as the Founding Fathers had originally intended."

"This monetary reform is based on three crucial areas, all of which must occur if the reform is to be truly effective."

"1. Incorporate the Federal Reserve System into the U.S. Treasury where all new money is created by government as money, not interest-bearing debt, and spent into circulation to promote the general welfare; monitored to be neither inflationary nor deflationary."

"2. Halt the banks' privilege to create money by ending the fractional reserve system in a gentle and elegant way. All the past monetized private credit is converted into U.S. government money. Banks then act as intermediaries accepting savings deposits and loaning them out to borrowers; what people think they do now."

"3. Spend new money into circulation on infrastructure, including education and health care needed for a growing society, starting with the $3 trillion that the American Institute of Architects estimate is needed for infrastructure repair (roads, bridges, railroads, water systems, sewer systems, etc.); creating good jobs across the nation, re-invigorating local economies and re-funding government at all levels."

"A debt-based monetary system, where money comes into existence primarily through private bank lending, can neither create, nor sustain, a stable economic environment, but has proven to be a source of chronic financial instability and frequent crisis, as evidenced by the near collapse of the financial system in 2008."

"Reclaiming the power of the Federal Government to create money, and to spend or lend money into circulation as needed, eliminates the need to treat money as a Federal liability or to pay interest charges on the Nation's money supply to financial institutions; it also renders unnecessary the undue influence of private financial institutions over public policy."

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Many,( Including myself) have for years believed that the bottom line agenda of Bob Maheu and others has been a shift of the money system from a fiat system to an asset backed system and the removal of its control from the FED and back to Congress via the Treasury as per the Constitution.

While all it not included in this Bill as written, much of what we have believed is included.It will be interesting to see whether this Bill sees the "light of day" and whether our representatives have the guts to place the welfare of this country above their own.

Let's wish them well for if change is not soon effected then we may all be on an economic slide into the abyss.

The dream is alive,

Momike


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