3.0.0 2990 2023-01-11T13:22:22Z 2023-01-11T13:22:22Z House H HR 2011-09-21 112 From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. KUCINICH:H.R. 2990.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The constitutional authority on which this bill rests isArticle I, Section 8, which enumerates the power of Congressto coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreigncoin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. The billwill re-assert the sole grant of constitutional authority toCongress to create money.[Page H6343]]]> hsba00 Financial Services Committee House Standing hsba19 Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee Hearings by 2012-05-08T20:58:58Z Referred to 2011-10-21T21:17:35Z hsba15 Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions Subcommittee Referred to 2011-10-21T21:17:47Z Referred to 2011-09-21T14:04:50Z 2012-05-08 hsba19 Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Subcommittee Hearings Held. Committee 2011-10-21 hsba15 Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. Committee 2011-10-21 hsba19 Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology. Committee 2011-09-21 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsba00 Financial Services Committee 2011-09-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2011-09-21 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress K000336 Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10] DENNIS KUCINICH D OH J. 10 N C000714 Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14] JOHN CONYERS D MI 14 2011-09-21 True Economics and Public Finance Banking and financial institutions regulation Budget deficits and national debt Comprehensive health care Department of the Treasury Economic performance and conditions Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Executive agency funding and structure Federal Reserve System Government lending and loan guarantees Government trust funds Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health programs administration and funding Higher education Housing finance and home ownership Infrastructure development Interest, dividends, interest rates Monetary policy Preschool education Social security and elderly assistance State and local finance War and emergency powers Economics and Public Finance 00 2011-09-21 Introduced in House 2011-11-04T21:04:04Z National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2011 - Replaces Federal Reserve notes with United States Money.

Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to originate United States Money to address any negative fund balances resulting from a shortfall in available government receipts to fund government appropriations.

Subjects to criminal and civil penalties any person who creates or originates United States Money by lending against deposits through "fractional reserve banking."

Prohibits borrowing by the Secretary or by any federal agency or department, independent establishment of the executive branch, or any other instrumentality of the United States (other than a national bank, federal savings association, or federal credit union) from any source other than the Secretary.

Requires the Secretary to begin to retire all outstanding instruments of U.S. indebtedness by payment in full of the amount legally due the bearer in United States Money.

Prescribes requirements for the entry of United States Money into circulation.

Directs the Secretary to purchase all net assets in the Federal Reserve System, including the Federal reserve banks. Requires return to any member bank in the form of United States Money of any reserves held by any Federal reserve bank.

Establishes: (1) the Monetary Authority to establish monetary supply policy and monitor the nation's monetary status, (2) the Bureau of the Federal Reserve to administer the origination and entry into circulation of United States Money, (3) the Emergency Board to recommend to Congress when a national emergency requires the President to issue a certification of emergency for the exercise of authority by the Monetary Authority as lender of last resort, and (4) a revolving loan fund in the Treasury for relending to banking institutions.

Sets forth a conversion process to replace fractional reserve banking with the lending of United States Money.

Sets a ceiling on interest rates.

Requires the Monetary Authority to instruct the Secretary to disperse monetary grants to states for public infrastructure, education, health care and rehabilitation, pensions, and paying for unfunded federal mandates.

Directs the Secretary to make recommendations to Congress for payment of a tax-free Citizens Dividend to all U.S. citizens residing in the United States in order to provide liquidity to the banking system at the commencement of this Act, before governmental infrastructure expenditures have had a chance to work into circulation.

Prescribes requirements for federal funding of education programs, coverage of any deficits in Social Security Trust Fund account, a universal health care plan, resolution of aspects of the mortgage crisis, and a program of interest-free lending of United States Money to state and local governmental entities.

]]> National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2011 Display Title National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced 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; and for other public purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced National Emergency Employment Defense Act of 2011 Introduced in House 2011-09-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112hr2990ih/xml/BILLS-112hr2990ih.xml 2012-05-08 Subcommittee Hearings Held. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.