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They do show is the fed will continue to keep the stimulus flowing for now before starting to scale it back. that is keeping stocks a little bit in the green. bernanke also expected to say risks to the economy have gone down since the fall and both the housing and the labor market are improving but that the jobs market is still far from satisfactory. have got to mention his term, by the way, is up at the end of the year, carol,o this will be bernanke's final grill on the hill. >> it rhymes. >> okay. i'm a poet and i know it. >> i didn't know it. thank you, alison. we'll be right back.

Thehill.com says that the strategy is that putting republicans back in power would be returning to george w. bush policies but also the idea was to put republicans on the defense by requiring them, making them answer the questions, a about what they would cut, which if you watch any of the programs and i know you do, when that question is asked you hear a lot of stumbling and stammering. >> i think you're on to something which is a real focal point of where the democrats have got to go. it's wall street versus the working folk. it's not wall street-main street, it's bigger than main street, it...

Associate editor and columnist with thehill.com. good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> what is your take on the former president's comments? what extremism is he talking about? is it tea partyers? >> well, the problem is that the tea partyers will think that's exactly who he's talking about. i mean, bill clinton is right that, yes, words do matter and can lead to dangerous consequences and that in the comments that he made on friday backtracking a little bit from his initial comments, you know, he said we're not interested in choking off debate in this country on issues that are important to...

Financial reform. the president's accusing republicans of taking their cues from lobbyists, who are paid big money to try to keep the status quo. >> lo and behold, when you return to washington, the senate republican leader came out against commonsense reforms that we've proposed. in doing so, he made the cynical and deceptive assertion that reform would somehow enable future bailouts when he knows it would do the exact opposite. >> a.b. stoddard, associate editor and columnist with thehill.com. good morning. >> good morning. >> is this the kind of thing we're going to be hearing? is this the ...

First up tonight, "keeping them honest." an investigation into lobbyists, closed-door deals, and the power of big pharmaceutical companies. you're going to learn tonight about a big giveaway to drug companies in the health care reform bill, which is now in its final push. before we tell you about it, i want to bring you up to date on the effort to get that bill passed, likely this week. take a look at some of these pictures. these are 37 democratic congressmen and women. they are crucial right now because of all of them are either leaning, likely, or firmly saying they're going to vote no on t...