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Senate Dems Not Sure They Can Get Enough Votes to Reconfirm Bernanke (Audit the Fed)

Amidst the voter anger at Wall Street and Washington, D.C., ABC News has learned that the Senate Democratic leadership isn’t sure there are enough votes to re-confirm Ben Bernanke for another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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Audit The Fed: Big turnout for the little Texan: Ron Paul at the University

If you think speeches attacking the U.S. Federal Reserve couldn’t excite a Friday night crowd on a college campus, think again.
About 2,000 people — students and older adults who were in the majority — filled Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota to cheer libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, as he joined Rep. […]