this seems to be like dejavu all over again, since i was the chairman of the monetary policy sub committee and he was the ranking member. and i got to go back-to-back with him quite often. since i'm substituting i think i can do something out of the order today and that is praise the work of my good friend, chairman bernanke, for doing his job. and really not bowing to the political pressure of either the right or the left or political pressure of republicans and democrats since the federal reserve is supposed to be free of all of those influences and i just are think he has done a magnificent job be and the fed has done a magnificent job of navigating us through some very, very difficult times even as we will, i am sure experience in today's hearing, in the midst of criticisms about the dual mandate, which the chairman has already raised, which i'm sure the federal reserve certainly cannot do anything about. we gave them that mandate. they can't refuse to do it. criticisms about inflation, fighting policy, steps required for recover of the economy, interest rate policies, quantitative eas