mr. richard fisher. and our federal reserve's bank really has 3 or 4 and general areas. one is conducting a war monetary policy as a nation. supervising -- conducting our monetary policy, supervising our banking institutions, maintaining the stability of our financial system, and providing financial-services to our lending institutions or depository institutions, u.s. government and foreign official institutions, including playing a major role in operating our nation's payment system. as chairman, ben bernanke also meets regularly with the president, the secretary of the treasury and testifies in front of congress. he is a major player in our world economy. in addition to visit here us here at fort bliss, he took the time voluntarily to greet our soldiers coming back from iraq this morning at 3:00 a.m. sir, we thank you for that. [applause] and we just appreciate your being here. let's give a big texas welcome to ben bernanke. [applause] >> thank you, general. it is >> as somebody who puts a high value on public service, i want to thank the soldiers. thank thr helping to

mr. richard fisher and is good to have you here, sir. thank you for coming. our federal reserve bank has three or four general areas. one is conducting our monetary policy as a nation. it has to do with regulating our banking institutions, maintaining the stability of our financial system and providing financial services to our lending institutions or depository institutions, the u.s. government, and foreign officials overall including playing a major role in operating our nation's payments system. as chairman, dr. bernanke also meets frequently with our president, the secretary of the treasury, and testifies in front of congress in front of the senate and house and he is a major player in our world economy. in addition to visiting us here at fort bliss, he also took the time voluntarily to greet our soldiers coming back from iraq this morning at 3:00 a.m. and we thank you for that. [applause] we just appreciate you being here, sir. let's give a big texas welcome to dr. bernanke. [applause] >> thank you, general and good morning. it is an honor and privilege

mr. richard fisher and it's good to have you here sir.our federal reserve's has three or four general areas oneness' conducting our monetary policy as a nation supervising regulating our banking institutions. maintaining the stability of our financial systems and then providing financial services to our lending institutions or depository institutions the government and foreign official institutions overall including playing a major role in operating the nation's payment system. and as the chairman, dr. bernanke also meets regularly with the president secretary of treasury and of course testifies before congress with the senate and house and is a major player in our world economy and in addition to visiting us here at fort bliss he also took the time voluntarily to greet our soldiers coming back from iraq this morning at 3 a.m. and we thank you for that. [applause] >> but to the big texas welcome to dr. bernanke. [applause] thank you congenital. good morning. it's an honor and privilege for me to join the men and women of fort bliss today.

mr. richard lee fisher. it is good to have you. a -- our federal reserve has three or four general areas. one is conducting our monetary policy as a nation. the regulating -- supervising and regulating our banking institutions. maintaining the stability of our financial institution. providing financial services to our lending institutions, the u.s. government and foreign institutions overall including playing a major role in operating the nation to talk payment system. as chairman, dr. bernanke with the president, the secretary of the treasury and testifies in front of congress. he is a major player in the world economy. in addition to visiting us here, he also took the time voluntarily to greet our soldiers coming back from iraq this morning at 3:00 a.m.. he thank you for that. [applause] we just appreciate you being here. let's give a big texas welcome to dr. ben bernanke. [applause] >> thank you, general. it is an honor and privilege for me to join the men and women of fort bliss today. as somebody who puts a high value on publi