http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/media/view/?id=c6d2164a-797d-4338-8826-0c47e38e63c9
"As the Senate debated health care reform, Senator Bernie Sanders led the fight for a strong Medicare-like public option to provide competition for private insurance companies. President Obama went to West Point to announce a troop surge in Afghanistan, a move met with skepticism in Congress. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ran into roadblocks in the Senate. Fed policies were blamed for tight credit for small businesses, usurious credit card interest rates, and unacceptable unemployment, which stood at 10 percent in November, the Labor Department reported on Friday.
Sanders' effort to deny the central bank boss a second term is the subject of this week's Web video..."