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      <excerpt> What&amp;#39;s more, a last-minute &amp;quot;compromise&amp;quot; amendment that would have significantly watered down the bill was submitted by Rep. Mel Watt of North Carolina and ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> RALEIGH &#8212; Rep. Mel Watt has been getting a lot of online grief lately for his work on a bill related to the Federal Reserve. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> A few weeks ago, we sent out an alert that Representative Mel Watt was attempting to water down HR 1207 in the House Financial Services ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Democratic Congressman Mel Watt of Charlotte is being accused of trying to thwart a charge on Capitol Hill to open the Federal Reserve to more transparency. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rep. Mel Watt has gotten a lot of attention &#8212; not all of it positive &#8212; for a measure that would have given the Federal Reserve a little independence. Watt, a Charlotte Democrat, offered an amendment to a bill that would provide for auditing of the F</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The amendment calls for a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve and replaces the opposing &#8220;placebo&#8221; amendment proposed by Mel Watt. The Paul-Grayson initiative is an amendment to Barney Frank&amp;#39;s HR 3996, also known as the &#8220;Financial ...  NY-0</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Well democrat Mel Watt from North Carolina has made sure that the fair audit will not happen. Did you really expect that the Fed was just going to roll over on this one. It is time to make some phone calls. ... Representative Ron Paul, the  Texas Republica</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>U.S representative Mel Watt recently stripped HR 1207 of all of its powers.. something that is terrible for any freedom loving American. While defending his new &amp;quot;audit&amp;quot; bill, that actually limits GAO&amp;#39;s ability to audit the fed, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>What&amp;#39;s more, a last-minute &amp;quot;compromise&amp;quot; amendment that would have significantly watered down the bill was submitted by Rep. Mel Watt of North Carolina and heavily backed by the Fed. In normal times, this sort of &amp;quot;split-the-difference&amp;quo</excerpt>
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