check us out at c-span radio.org. a long-term outlook that many say congress needs to work on, one of the issues that senator ron widing put forth as ben bernanke testified on capitol hill. last week he was before a house committee. today before the senate budget committee. >> i want to ask you a little bit more about the shocks to the committee that you the have been discussing. you talk about the pace of the recovery being slow and particularly for the millions of people who are hurting, unemployed, underemployed and that all of this really comes together as part of a sluggish expansion that's left the economy vulnerable to shocks. so i can see plenty of shocks. the payroll tax debate bogging down into a quagmire and talking about two months or another short-term effort. we mentioned europe as another one. mentioned the question 69 sequestration and you know, to me, that will alone puts a very negative spectacle you know out because it would mean that in a lame duck session in the 2012 congress, you would see, again