Senate confirms Powell and Stein to Fed board

Harry Reid takes aim at Republicans for blocking so many of Barack Obama's nominees:

The Senate’s votes to approve Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell bring the seven-member Federal Reserve board to full strength for the first time since 2006, before the economic crisis struck.

Profiles of President Barack Obama's two nominees to the seven-member Federal Reserve Board who were confirmed by the Senate on Thursday.

The Federal Reserve just released minutes from its March 19-20 FOMC meeting this morning after it was revealed that the minutes were accidentally leaked to lobbyists yesterday. The minutes came out at 9 AM ET. They were originally scheduled for release at 2 PM.

The nominees are Jerome H. (Jay) Powell, a former Treasury official from the George H.W. Bush administration; and Jeremy C. Stein, an economics professor at Harvard University.President Obama nominated a former Treasury official from the George H.W.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is trying to change the face of a federal judiciary that has a long tradition of white men passing judgment on parties from all walks of life — if he can get his nominees past the Senate.