{"id":17491,"date":"2010-01-25T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_checks_on_bernanke_prospects_senators_say_secure\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T00:04:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:04:20","slug":"obama_checks_on_bernanke_prospects_senators_say_secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17491","title":{"rendered":"Obama checks on Bernanke prospects, senators say secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Barack Obama called lawmakers on Saturday to check that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had enough support for a second term and two key senators said the nomination was on track.<\/p>\n<p>In a sign of how worried the White House is about a sudden recent surge in opposition to Bernanke&#8217;s renomination, Obama contacted the Democratic Senate leadership to make sure it had enough votes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The) president made &#8230; calls to a few senators this afternoon including leadership to make sure everything on track and he has been assured that Bernanke is on track for confirmation,&#8221; a senior administration official said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN2313050820100124\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Barack Obama called lawmakers on Saturday to check that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had enough support for a second term and two key senators said the nomination was on track. In a sign of how worried the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17491\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,671,616,151,667,618,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-federal-reserve","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}