{"id":236325,"date":"2010-01-27T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63810"},"modified":"2010-01-27T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T15:32:17","slug":"bernanke-appears-to-have-old-school-majority-in-quest-to-keep-fed-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/236325","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke Appears to Have Old-School Majority in Quest to Keep Fed Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Wall Street Journal now counts 51 votes<\/a> in favor of Ben Bernanke’s confirmation for another term as the Chair of the Federal Reserve. If the new regime of just Ben Bernanke requiring 50 votes<\/a> to pass the Senate, then he’s pretty much assured of confirmation. This would explain why a date has been set<\/a> for the vote.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Senate on Tuesday moved to clear the way to confirm Ben Bernanke to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman, setting a procedural vote for Thursday in a sign that the needed votes were now secured.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats scrambled to drum up backing for Bernanke after a Republican won a stunning upset in a Massachusetts Senate race last week, largely because of voter anger about the economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Considering the intellectual caliber of the people voting on the nomination – like genius Tom Coburn<\/a>, who doesn’t know that the Federal Reserve has a mandate to maximize employment, I can’t say I’m surprised.<\/p>\n

About the only thing that can trip Bernanke up at this point is if something damaging comes out at the AIG hearing coming up in just a few minutes [update: hearings now under way]. Today Bernanke delivered a letter<\/a> to the House Oversight Committee explaining the Fed’s role in the AIG bailout. He says that he was not directly involved in negotiating with the counter-parties (which we knew) and supported the final plan to create Maiden Lane III to pay off the counter-parties at par. He also begged off having any knowledge of the NY Federal Reserve Bank trying to withhold disclosure of the counter-party payment information. You can read the letter<\/a>, it’s all “I was not involved, I was not involved.” If information that contradicts this comes to light today, maybe that gets back to the issue of confirming Bernanke. But I’d find that possibility unlikely.<\/p>\n

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