. >> mr. mehan from pennsylvania, five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me express my appreciation to both of you, as public servants for make iing this commitment you have at a very challenging time for our nation and our world. i'm grateful for your efforts. there are many complexing questions as part of this. as i was listening to your testimony, chairman bernanke, one thing that struck me in your review of the totality of the circumstance circumstances in europe, one of the places where, in my estimation, seem ed to apply hesitancy was with respect to the issue of currency swab swa which we take american dollars and make them available to the european banks, as i understand it, and they'll be paid back again in american dollars by the central bank. what is the purpose of that? is that different from the imf funding and other things? >> it's a liquidity issue, not a long-term loan. longest of these loans ever made is three months. we have -- our counter party is not the country, it's not the bank. it's the european central bank, which we'll have ev