If it actually happens, this is great news!

Is this a bigger charade than what we have seen so far? Don't hold your breath that those who feed the culture of corruption will be held accountable for anything wrong....

We need to open a commission on the 911 incident to investigate the scientific, financial and logistics unanswered questions and to open how can someone declare in a DEMOCRACY, "you are either with us or you are with the terrorists". We must not let patriotism become following blindly the self-declared "protectors" and becoming a sheep.

More drama to give the American people the impression that our government acts as a genuine watchdog over massive corporations, especially banks. The truth: 2012 elections are coming up and incumbents in both parties are beginning to piss their pants over the very real possibility that they will be replaced by rookie politicians. This is political theatre at its best, since the Fed is synonymous with the U.S. government itself.

This is outstanding! EVERYONE from card carrying commies to flaming libertarians, to gay marchers, to the kkk, and every various type of tea party supporter can ALL agree on the need to audit the fed.
I believe that when properly audited, the public will then agree on it's abolition thus ending this dark phase of our history.

We must be cautiously aware that this bill might be a fake, rendered toothless by inside manipulation, but the unanimous vote is truly amazing and gives me hope!

This bill had already been gutted by the time of the vote. The heart of this bill originally was to audit the Federal Reserve Banks monthly meetings past, present and future. In order to placate the public, some kind of audit needed to be passed by the Congress. This bill will only allow an audit of Tarp funds allocated in 2009.

The Vitter amendment which was an attempt to reinstate auditing the monthly meetings was voted down 62-37 today.

Don't be excited, Sanders switched the bill to the one the Fed was lobbying for. This is a complete joke and dog and pony show. To see who voted for the real audit, Sanders original amendment before he changed it house before the vote

http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00138

Did anyone notice that Sanders called the Fed a government agency? HeL-Lo-O, Bernie! It is a privately-owned blood-sucking mechanism that chumps like you allowed to obtain a counterfeiting monopoly. Get some brains; get some stones -- and KILL the Fed. This "audit" is going to be a farce.

"On the verge of lifting the veil," lift muthaeffers, lift!!

Yeah right... more "show " for the public

If they really do "audit the Fed" for real.. it will be with a road paved with dead bodies.get ready for lots of suicides , airplane accidents and heart attacks..if not outright terrorism by those who stand to lose from public disclosure of whats really happening "behind the scenes"...let me put it this way..if they do..it will open Pandora's Box and amount something close to a Civil War

The corruption is so deep , pervasive and "mind boggling" that even the public would have a hard time believing the profound moral depravity of our Financial Elite.

Good luck... "auditing the Fed... ..when Pigs Fly!!

totally agree, fed will not really be properly audited the way it should. It wont be audited in any meaningful way as it should. However, there are 2 possibilities. 1) They might find something small to save face, which might get the ball rolling and get a few people in trouble. 2) It sets a precedent, although farcical and low, for future action against the fed.

Here's hoping for a brighter future.