Word: implementation
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...help work on a second term agenda and now I might get to be on the team that gets to implement the policies,” she said. “To spend so much time talking about what the President stands for, and then getting to actually do that, that’s really exciting...
...policy. His entire domestic policy platform of an “ownership society” was based on the moral belief that people had the right control their own economic activity and destiny without being fettered by the government. Democrats often erroneously charge that Bush has no mandate to implement his policies on economic or social welfare issues like Social Security and the tax code because, they claim, Bush didn’t adequately discuss those issues in the campaign and voters’ true economic interests aligned with Kerry. But the facts indicate just the opposite. Exit polls showed...
...influence. Arizona has witnessed a 20 percent increase in voter turnout, more competitive races and an upsurge in minority elected officials. In Massachusetts, however, state legislators, content with their comfortable incumbencies and reluctant to face a rash of publicly funded challengers, defied the voters and refused to implement the new system...
...place a proposition on the statewide ballot is a fee of $200 and signatures of registered voters equal to 5 or 7 percent—depending on the type of initiative—of the turnout of the previous gubernatorial election. Unfortunately, what progressives fought so hard to implement has now been hijacked by special interest groups that mask their agendas through massive marketing campaigns...
...passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, earmarking some $4 billion to streamline voting standards and allow states to modernize their voting systems. Although they passed the act, Congress and the White House were slow, perhaps recklessly so, in setting up the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to implement it. So while states helped themselves to funding for new voting machines, the EAC developed no national standards for using them. Likewise, HAVA mandated provisional voting so that nobody would be refused a ballot for the wrong reason. But the law was ambiguous in some key areas, opening the door...