Congressional Committee Reform
Watching Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve, testify before a congressional committee, February 10, 2009, the proceedings raised some concern as to the mechanics of conducting the meeting. Each committee member is allowed to ask questions within a set amount of time, I believe 5 minutes. Just about all the questions were pretty darn good and right on target. At times it seemed each committee member was in competition for achieving that…