WASHINGTON - the Senate Banking Committee is likely to vote Thursday on the nominated Federal Reserve Peter Diamond, an aide to Committee said, marking a third to put in place a scuttled twice with the Republican nominee.
The aide said that the Panel planned to vote on the appointment of Diamond with five other nominees advance of a hearing on the financial stability Committee.
Diamond, who won a Nobel economics prize last year, is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for his work on behavioral economics known. But the top Republican on the Committee, Richard Shelby, has criticized the diamond for his lack of experience of monetary policy.
Other Republicans are opposed to Diamond because he favoured the binding of $ 600 billion controversial Fed's purchase program.
The Senate Committee should also vote on the candidates for the Department of the Treasury before he questioned top financial regulators of the page, including the President of the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on the stability of the financial system.
The majority of the members on the Panel of banking of the Senate must vote for Diamond before other senators can weigh.
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