Did You Know?

• How much does a U.S. Congressman earn each year?

The base salary for a U.S. Congressman is $174,000 plus benefits, plus official expenses (such as for staff, travel, office quipment, supplies), totaling approximately $1.5 million per year!

• Did you know that there is currently no legal avenue to recall any elected Federal official from office via petition by the citizens of the United States, or individual states thereof under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 of the constitution?

• Did you know that Executive Order 6012, signed on April 5, 1933 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is an order"forbidding the hoarding of Gold.."?

The limitation on gold ownership in the U.S. was repealed after president Gerald Ford signed a bill legalizing private ownership of gold coins, bars and certificates by an act of Congress codified in Pub.L. 93-373 [2] [3] which went into effect December 31, 1974. P.L. 93-373 does not repeal the Gold Clause Resolution of 1933, which makes unlawful any contracts which specify payment in a fixed amount of money or a fixed amount of gold. That is, contracts are unenforceable if they use gold monetarily rather than as a commodity of trade. However, Act of Oct. 28, 1977, Pub. L. No. 95-147, § 4(c), 91 Stat. 1227, 1229 (originally codified at 31 U.S.C. § 463 note, recodified as amended at 31 U.S.C. § 5118(d)(2)) amended the 1933 Joint Resolution and made it clear that parties could again include so-called gold clauses in contracts formed after 1977.