I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5404 
To define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 22, 2018 
Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States dollar has lost 30 per-
cent of its purchasing power since 2000, and 96 per-
cent of its purchasing power since the end of the 
gold standard in 1913. 
(2) Under the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent in-
flation objective, the dollar loses half of its pur-
chasing power every generation, or 35 years. 
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(3) American families need long-term price sta-
bility to meet their household spending needs, save 
money, and plan for retirement. 
(4) The Federal Reserve policy of long-term in-
flation has made American manufacturing uncom-
petitive, raising the cost of United States manufac-
tured goods by more than 40 percent since 2000, 
compared to less than 20 percent in Germany and 
France. 
(5) Between 2000 and 2010, United States 
manufacturing employment shrunk by one-third 
after holding steady for 30 years at nearly 
20,000,000 jobs. 
(6) The American economy needs a stable dol-
lar, fixed exchange rates, and money supply con-
trolled by the market not the government. 
(7) The gold standard puts control of the 
money supply with the market instead of the Fed-
eral Reserve. 
(8) The gold standard means legal tender de-
fined by and convertible into a certain quantity of 
gold. 
(9) Under the gold standard through 1913 the 
United States economy grew at an annual average of 
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four percent, one-third larger than the growth rate 
since then and twice the level since 2000. 
(10) The international gold exchange standard 
from 1914 to 1971 did not provide for a United 
States dollar convertible into gold, and therefore 
helped cause the Great Depression and stagflation. 
(11) The Federal Reserve’s trickle down policy 
of expanding the money supply with no demand for 
it has enriched the owners of financial assets but en-
dangered the jobs, wages, and savings of blue collar 
workers. 
(12) Restoring American middle-class pros-
perity requires change in monetary policy authorized 
to Congress in Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the 
Constitution. 
SEC. 2. DEFINE THE DOLLAR IN TERMS OF GOLD. 
Effective 30 months after the date of enactment of 
this Act— 
(1) the Secretary of the Treasury (in this Act 
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall define the dol-
lar in terms of a fixed weight of gold, based on that 
day’s closing market price of gold; and 
(2) Federal Reserve Banks shall make Federal 
Reserve notes exchangeable with gold at the statu-
tory gold definition of the dollar. 
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SEC. 3. DISCLOSURE OF HOLDING. 
During the 30-month period following the date of en-
actment of this Act, the United States Government shall 
take timely and reasonable steps to disclose all of its hold-
ings of gold, together with a contemporaneous report of 
any United States governmental purchases or sales, thus 
enhancing the ability of the market and of market partici-
pants to arrive at the fixed dollar-gold parity in an orderly 
fashion. 
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