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Fed Chairman Warsh completed two days of testimony before the House and Senate without a major stumble. That clears the first procedural hurdle of his chairmanship.
The rapid test of his actual commitment to price stability comes next.
Two days on Capitol Hill Warsh appeared before both chambers of Congress in successive sessions, the standard public accounting expected of a new central bank chief.
He avoided the kind of defining error that follows a chairman out of the hearing room and back into the wire. The two days ended without a material incident, the analysis shows. Congressional testimony is a set piece.
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