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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that the economic recovery "remains uneven and far from complete," and the job of the Fed to support it will not be finished until the pandemic is under control.

"Once we get this pandemic under control, we could be getting through this much more quickly than we had feared. … It's not done yet. The job is not done. … That's the thing I keep coming back to. We've got to get the pandemic under control so the U.S. economy can reopen," Powell said.

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