Confronted with a changing world, Helms uses his own moral outlook to make policy.
Yet we make policy with the politicians we have, not with the politicians we wish we had.
The DPJ's pledge on taking office was to make policy decisions itself and ensure bureaucrats acted on those.
We also advocate with NGOs, governments and regulators to make policy changes that we think will help consumers help themselves.
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Imagine Don Rumsfeld or Henry Kissinger declaring that they took a policy job in which they could not make policy.
They worry that Ms Sotomayor takes a more expansive view of judicial authority: she once said that appeals-court judges make policy.
This failure of communication may look bad, but it is hardly unprecedented: since Eisenhower, presidents have seldom used their cabinets to make policy.
The men who make policy must change the rules, so that America's farmers are on a level footing with their subsidised counterparts abroad.
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Either way, the push to make policy changes "adds uncertainty to the environment, " said Perry Kojodjojo, a foreign-exchange strategist at HSBC in Hong Kong.
"Those of us who are elected are supposed to make policy, but those of us who are appointed are supposed to apply the law, " McConnell argued.
Prosecutors say they have witnesses to demonstrate that Mr. Clemens lied to Congress, and they say his alleged perjury undermined Congress's ability to make policy on steroid abuse.
The issue has also exposed a split among aid workers on the ground, who tend to oppose criminalisation, and those in distant western capitals that make policy, who back it.
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Budget reconciliation -- the process that implemented last year's budget -- requires the authorizing committees, which make policy, to produce savings from mandatory programs that can then be used to cut taxes.
Numbers like that make policy wonks go crazy, but in the voting booth, most Americans will pull the lever based on a different measure: how much they trust a candidate's integrity, and empathy.
The law also makes sure that the IPAB is not in a position to make policy, but instead to simply make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, proposals that Congress is specifically empowered to override if it sees fit.
The new government argues that it is better to make policy on the merits of the individual case than to be overly constrained by ideology, whether the ideology is a Thatcherite prejudice in favour of the market or an Old Labourish aversion to it.
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However, top authorities at TSA will have the flexibility to make a policy change.
The question, he and others say, is can you make the policy work as an investment?
In particular, it does not make any policy inferences that rest on geographical considerations.
In particular, fragile financial sectors and companies' weak balance sheets will make monetary policy less effective.
Structural reforms to strengthen competition and reduce price inertia would make monetary policy more effective.
Contemplating this chaos, Republican strategists are increasingly inclined to make foreign policy an election issue.
Whatever happens, Mr King is likely to be thwarted in his ambition to make monetary policy boring.
Does the White House expect Senator Hagel to make this policy happen if he is confirmed as Defense Secretary?
"The actions of a small minority of schools don't make the policy right, " said deputy general secretary Martin Johnson.
Mr. BERNANKE: It's difficult enough to make good policy in the face of a complex economy, complex financial system.
Several countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, have pioneered reforms to make fiscal policy more transparent and accountable.
Frankly, I think the Fed will feel forced to make this policy permanent.
Is it possible there are simply too many unknowns to make a policy that will effectively grow net job creation?
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