Jane Harman was a "conservative Blue Dog Democrat", with Blue Dogs already being on the conservative side of Democrats. How are you asserting that she was radical?
> Although an instrument of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System considers itself "an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the president or by anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by Congress, and the terms of the members of the board of governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.
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