U.S. President Barack Obama pushed back on Wednesday against critics who complain that his former top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, was not aggressive enough in seeking more economic stimulus funds than Congress ultimately approved in 2009.
House of Representatives Democrats left a closed-door meeting with Obama saying the president defended the size of his administration's nearly $800 billion stimulus law and said it was all he could get from Congress at the time.
Summers and Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen are seen as Obama's leading candidates to replace Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term ends next January.
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At the closed-door meeting, Obama said that he had not made any decisions on his choice of Bernanke's replacement, according to a number of House Democrats.
"The decision is not ready to be made. He was quite clear about that," Representative Steve Israel said.