The chair controls the agenda of meetings.
"They wanted to put me in a sip-and-puff wheelchair, a chair controlled by mouth, but I insisted on one I could drive moving a toggle with my arm," he said.
Challenging the notion that the Fed Chair controls the organization as an all-powerful technocrat, he explains how institutions and individuals within and outside of government shape Fed policy.
The 27 CEOs and chairs control over $3 trillion in annual revenues, and 12 are entrepreneurs, including new billionaires on the list, Nigeria's Aliko Dangote (No. 64), founder of Dangote Group, and Oracle's Larry Ellison (No. 58).
But the debate frequently descended into a shouting match with the two speaking over one another and the chair losing control of the discussion as they traded blows over the currency, oil and the NHS.
A 12V connection runs the show then you can plug your gaming console, MP3 player, DVD player or just about anything to the chair and control everything from your rump.
"We're not taking anything for granted," Schiff said, but laid out his priorities as the committee's chair if control of the House flips.
If that's what they wanted, it would be far easier and more comfortable to just stay at home in the easy chair, remote control in hand and a pot pie in the oven.
Now, things were pretty touch-and-go for a while, as Ron Paul's devotees briefly staged a delegate takeover using their knowledge of the Tom Friedman procedural rules, but in the end the Tom Friedman state party chair took control of the situation.
