{"id":642098,"date":"2010-01-25T13:38:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74685"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:38:55","slug":"mccain-will-vote-against-bernanke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642098","title":{"rendered":"McCain Will Vote Against Bernanke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big statement from the senior senator from Arizona, who famously floundered at the start of the financial crisis in September 2008 by &#8212; among other things &#8212; demanding the resignation of then-SEC Chairman Chris Cox.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our country is still facing an economic crisis and while I appreciate the service that Chairman Bernanke has performed as Federal Reserve Chairman, I believe that he must be held accountable for many of the decisions that contributed to our financial meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I plan to oppose Chairman Ben Bernanke\u2019s confirmation for a new term as Federal Reserve Chairman.<span id=\"more-74685\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s unclear: Whether McCain knows whether Bernanke&#8217;s confirmation is already a go. His colleague Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who is not up for re-election this year, is backing Bernanke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big statement from the senior senator from Arizona, who famously floundered at the start of the financial crisis in September 2008 by &#8212; among other things &#8212; demanding the resignation of then-SEC Chairman Chris Cox. Our country is still facing an economic crisis and while I appreciate the service that Chairman Bernanke has performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H2q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}