Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been reconfirmed by the Senate to second four year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The Senate voted to reconfirm Bernanke although a whopping 79% of Americans who responded to a Rasumssen poll on the topic was against the move.
President Obama and the majority of the Democrats in the Senate thought Bernanke deserved credit for keeping the economy from completely collapsing during the ongoing recession, but a number of Republicans and moderate Democrats disagreed.