mr. posener? is in mr. chairman, i'd like to make two recommendations to the individual who proposed the amendment. the first is i'm not -- when he read it, he said "strongly suggest." on mine "strongly suggest" is crossed out, and it says "demand," and it said demand on the screen. we don't, for example, demand a human life amendment, we say we strongly support -- >> if i can interrupt, though, the question -- that may be discussion, but the question right now is simply on the amendments that have been made by the gentlelady -- >> i'm sorry. i thought we got through that. >> are okay. we're not through that yet. so are there any other questions on this substitute amendment to modify the main amendment? >> [inaudible] >> all right, hearing none, the motion -- is there a second on calling the question? all in favor of that motion say aye. >> aye. >> all opposed? the question is called on the substitute amendment. all in favor of that amendment say, aye. >> aye. >> all opposed, no. >> okay. that amendment is

mr. adam posen who was in his last week as a member of the bank of england monetary policy committee joined me exclusively on "worldwide exchange" and said it was in their mandate. >> central bank's zwroin eurozone is to provide monetary stability. buying and selling bonds is what they are supposed to do. that's what central banks do. >> so there we go. we think the ecb agrees. so dollar slightly stronger. it did get a little spike up from that draghi news. maybe the other thing is, joe, guys, maybe he couldn't spend the time to get on a jet and go hang out with steve. maybe that was the final decideder. >> art cashin wrote in a note and said this is something steve talked about, he can't go to bernanke's and if upstage him. it's like wearing a white to a wedding. don't upstage the bride. if you have news or say anything that makes news you're stepping on bernanke's toes with that too. >> what actually could he say? right? what more could he add. >> right now the trading floor would look at every single word, how he said. they would parse it all out. >> didn't even to when. >> absolutely, b