There are policy differences, and then there are affronts that have to be answered every time without equivocation, and this is one of them.
And there are policy lessons in the local Petri dishes, too.
"Certainly, there are policy disagreements as to how the First Amendment should apply to these series of leak investigations being conducted by the Justice Department and that is and should be an area for the committee to consider, " Conyers said in a statement.
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"There are political consequences but there are huge policy implications as well, " Jeff Shesol says.
Moreover, there are major policy implications that can be tackled cost-effectively by building on research findings related to cook stoves.
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He noted, however, that "there are other policy considerations involved".
Then, there are skewed policy incentives: Obama has teed up initiatives such as immigration and gun control that may stymie GOP attempts to broaden its appeal to independent voters.
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It should also be noted that there are many policy experts who believe that had the panel reached an agreement, the damage to Medicare may have been far more serious than the planned 2 percent annual cuts.
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In a continent that glories in political, linguistic and gastronomic diversity, there are almost as many forms of social policy as there are national drinks.
But there are three urgent policy issues which will force the government to confront regional imbalances more directly.
Indeed, there are far more policy wonks and intellectuals devoted to that cause than to the entire issue of monetary policy.
There are some serious policy issues, of course.
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Still, there are some interesting policy lessons from this new study: If your goal is to boost spending, you should probably do what Obama did and reduce weekly withholding rather than give people a one-time tax season rebate.
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Already there are calls for policy changes to fix the flaws in America's energy infrastructure exposed by Katrina: its tight refining capacity, its dependence on offshore drilling in the hurricane-prone Gulf, its love affair with big, inefficient cars.
Number two is that although there are some programs in there that I think are good policy, some of them aren't job creators.
Sidney Drell says there are many areas of policy where all nations committed to non-proliferation should be able to agree.
Are there any other policy levers that might actually do some good?
But there are signs of that policy being diluted, for example in Londonderry where the Apprentice Boys spoke to the local resident group.
No matter how we move forward, there are at least four policy priorities identified by Republican Members at the meeting that I am exploring.
There are simply too many policy inconsistencies and counter-pressures, not the least of which is the common sense of the American people and their representatives in Congress.
When it comes to economic integration and exchanges, I am completely sympathetic to the fact that there are challenges around monetary policy in developed and less-developed countries.
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Last but not least, there are rewards for good policy.
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There are limits to monetary policy: the Fed does not have the knowledge to bring about full employment, which requires flexible relative prices for all factors of production.
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Clearly, there are risks to unconventional policy (abroad as well as at home, where emerging markets have long complained that expansionary rich-world policy has caused waves of capital inflows).
There are no questions of policy here, just enforcement.
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There are legitimate legal and policy gripes about the EPA's expanding power--it declared in April that it believed it had the right to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
There is no question that on matters of budget policy and fiscal policy, social policy, and other kinds of policy there are and there will be stark differences between the two parties, leaders of the parties.
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