Add Joe Lieberman to the chorus of senators coming out in favor of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.<\/p>\n
“I intend to vote in favor of the reconfirmation of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and urge my Senate colleagues to join me in supporting him. Chairman Bernanke acted in a timely and decisive manner to shepherd our country through one of the worst financial crises we have ever faced,” Lieberman said in a statement this morning. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n “Although it is easy to criticize any single decision made during the crisis in isolation and with the benefit of hindsight, our economy would likely be in far worse shape today than it is without Chairman Bernanke’s leadership and diligence during this extraordinary time. Chairman Bernanke’s experience and leadership will be valuable assets to our nation in continuing to restore our economy’s health and creating jobs for American workers.”<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n Prospects for Bernanke’s confirmation to a second term, once all but assured, grew murky last week, when a number of Senators on both sides of the aisle indicated they would not support him.<\/font><\/p>\n Uncertainty about Bernanke’s future is blamed for last week’s stock market slump.<\/font><\/p>\n The issue isn’t breaking along party lines: both Lieberman and Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, are backing Bernanke. Last week Richard Blumenthal, a Denocrat running for U.S. Senate, said he opposes the Fed Chair. <\/font><\/p>\n And Lieberman’s BFF, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said yesterday on “Face the Nation” that he is “leaning against” Bernanke’s confirmation.<\/font><\/p>\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Add Joe Lieberman to the chorus of senators coming out in favor of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. “I intend to vote in favor of the reconfirmation of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and urge my Senate colleagues to join me in supporting him. Chairman Bernanke acted in a timely and decisive manner to shepherd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}