But back then she was merely an academic and policy wonk.
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" "He's a policy wonk; he's very knowledgeable on the policy issues.
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He is an alleged policy wonk who, whether you agree with
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Her authenticity is being a policy wonk and working for us.
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"We don't need a policy wonk as president," Hunter told Politico.
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Ryan, the accidental Speaker, is a policy wonk above all else.
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Often chided as "policy wonk in chief," intellectual discourse is his staple.
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The reason this matters is familiar to every policy wonk in Washington.
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Warren's time in the Senate cemented her image as a policy wonk.
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Today, Warren is creating a symbol out of being a policy wonk.
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Yes, it's true that nobody is mistaking Trump for a policy wonk.
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He is no policy wonk, and prefers fiery speeches to ten-point plans.
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Ann Romney: They're able to communicate on this very intellectual policy-wonk level.
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Now imagine what all this will look like to a future policy wonk.
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As a presidential candidate, he positioned himself as an economic and foreign policy wonk.
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She serves as Chief Policy Wonk of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture.
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He has never been known as a policy wonk or defender of objective truth.
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Obama, in contrast, was a policy wonk who liked to get into the weeds.
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And many consider her to be more of a policy wonk than a leader.
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Andy Slavitt has been called a renegade, a rabble rouser and a policy wonk.
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Too often Hillary Clinton—a lifelong policy wonk—sounds like a set of PowerPoint slides.
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Warren proved her initial detractors wrong by fully embracing the role of the policy wonk.
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He was a policy wonk more known for his love of PowerPoint presentations than people.
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ALAN HERSHEY Pennington, N.J. To the Editor: The Trump voter is not a policy wonk.
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But for Mr. Trump, never much of a policy wonk, it was an eye opener.
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"She is a thinker, a policy wonk and a hard worker," the editorial board wrote.
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Like Warren, Ryan built himself up by cultivating an image as a smart policy wonk.
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Overhauling the code has long been a goal of Ryan, a self-described policy wonk.
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Booker spoke compellingly on a range of issues without getting lost in policy-wonk weeds.
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One progressive policy wonk thought a drug prices bill might actually be the first Democratic priority.
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He might try to provide substance on the campaign trail, but he's hardly a policy wonk.
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Clinton is known to be a policy wonk and in some ways a classic student overachiever.
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Depending on the moment, he was an awkward combatant, a former governor and a policy wonk.
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Clinton's campaign, saddled with a policy wonk candidate, felt penalized for playing by the old rules.
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Distrust any policy wonk who claims to speak for a grandee, though, says a prominent researcher.
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From the standpoint of an intellectual or a policy wonk, the GOP's restive base looks incoherent.
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Even if he were the policy wonk he pretends to be, he couldn't do the impossible.
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Photograph by Zachary Zavislak for The New Yorker Andrés remains a policy wonk in chef's clothing.
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Warren has become known as the liberal policy wonk of this field through her detailed policy papers.
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It was in those meetings that I learned Congressman Price was, like me, a true policy wonk.
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And Speaker Paul Ryan, a self-styled policy wonk, doesn't have much in common with Trump, either.
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"She is a thinker, a policy wonk and a hard worker," the paper&aposs editorial board wrote.
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I'm as much of a policy wonk as anybody; I've been teaching public policy for 40 years.
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Open Markets' Matt Stoller, who can transition seamlessly from policy wonk to Twitter thug, sat near the front.
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But Clinton's public perception has always been that she is not warm and is only a policy wonk.
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Clinton prepares for unpredictable Trump at debate Chen, a Republican policy wonk who worked for former Massachusetts Gov.
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Hillary had her chance to tell us who she is, and who she is is a policy wonk.
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Down the hall from St. Clair, a reproductive rights policy wonk keeps a Kevlar vest on her bookshelf.
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She is a policy wonk, but Mr. Trump has little interest in a wide-ranging debate on issues.
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Aaron Reuben is a science writer, recovering policy wonk, and neuropsychologist in training who's exploring just these questions.
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He plumbed the depths of an issue, but understood that such proficiency only made him a policy wonk.
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He's not a policy wonk who has the disposition to tune out the street theater and focus on issues.
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Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives and chief Republican policy wonk, has something very different in mind.
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Clearly Mr Peston is far less convincing as a policy wonk than as a scourge of his erring colleagues.
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For me, as someone who's more of a policy wonk, it's really changed the way I think about policy.
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That's the question every policy wonk who cares about climate change has been asking since election night in November.
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Before he was speaker, Ryan was often described, however dubiously, as a serious policy wonk who cared about details.
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Warren was an unusual political phenomenon by then: a policy wonk who was also a force and a symbol.
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"Next to all these guys on the stage last night, Herman Cain looks like a policy wonk," he added.
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He's also just obviously more of an old-school back-slapping relational politician than a detail-oriented policy wonk.
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Every interaction with a health system, insurer, actuary, clinician, researcher, policy wonk, or other expert is an opportunity to learn.
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A former CIA operative, Hurd has made a name for himself in his first term as a cybersecurity policy wonk.
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Yes, Mrs Clinton is a policy wonk, her team has decided to say, but that is how she expresses love.
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The speaker, often deemed a policy wonk, did not delve into the weeds or defend the controversial border adjustment tax.
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Still, even if you're not a billionaire, a CEO or a policy wonk, there are good reasons to pay attention.
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Ryan is a policy wonk at heart, with a lifelong belief that lower taxes are better for America's working families.
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Unless you're a scientist or policy wonk, figuring out who's actually making a difference can feel like an impossible task.
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She is a self-admitted policy wonk who has put her meaty policy prescriptions front and center in the campaign.
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A self-described policy wonk, she grew up somewhere else, Atlanta, and got a taste of politics as a student.
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WIRED tracks his progression from nerdy high school student to policy wonk to head of the country's top telecom regulator. Plus!
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But Warren proved her critics and doubters wrong in the following months by leaning into her reputation as a policy wonk.
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Kevin Brady (R-TX) who, unlike a normal Republican, really is a policy wonk with big ambitions and strongly held views.
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" Yuval Levin, a prominent conservative policy wonk, wrote in National Review that the Texas lawsuit "doesn't even merit being called silly.
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Mr. Bredesen, a veteran statewide campaigner known as a policy wonk, prepared stacks of paper detailing his history with Silicon Ranch.
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Deep down, the star of "All in the Family" and the director of "The American President" was a liberal policy wonk.
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A policy wonk with good working-class roots and connections and just has the ability to communicate with every man and woman.
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At fundraisersThey roar approval at his Latin jokesAnd shun me as a dismal policy wonk Lady MacGove (testily)Always with the hesitation.
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If the Democratic primary were a contest to crown the biggest policy wonk, the Massachusetts senator would be the presumptive nominee already.
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"I'm actually enjoying the chance to demonstrate that I have in my heart and always will be a policy wonk," she said.
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" Yuval Levin, a prominent conservative policy wonk, wrote in the National Review that the Texas lawsuit "doesn't even merit being called silly.
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Zimring's most explosive assertion — which leaps out of a work that is mostly policy-wonk nuance — is that police leaders don't care.
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"He has integrity, cares about the individual, and is a policy wonk," wrote Van Laar, who noted working for Knight's 2014 campaign.
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"I do plead guilty to being a policy wonk and I know that can be boring," Clinton said as she announced her platform.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) sold himself as a policy wonk and budget hawk throughout his 20-year career in the House.
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She is a self-described policy wonk who finds the art of campaigning difficult and admits it does not come naturally to her.
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A lawyer by training, the Austin, Texas- based mother of two is a reproductive rights policy specialist and a self-professed policy wonk.
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Privately, aides chalk it all up to Clinton being more policy-wonk than political animal, not her lack of familiarity with the press.
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Of course, that's right — on a great many issues, the president isn't the policy-wonk-in-chief, he's the coalition-builder-in-chief.
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Television producers are relatively unlikely to air Clinton in policy wonk mode, not because it's a conspiracy but because it's bad for ratings.
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Some online supporters have even taken to calling her "Likable Liz" in an attempt to rebuff notions she is only a policy wonk.
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Perhaps the major figure in all this was Ryan -- one of the brightest of the bright and the biggest policy wonk of the wonks.
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Luther Lowe, Yelp's policy wonk who seems to spend every waking hour making a case against Google's dominance, was working reporters in the room.
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Winfree, a respected policy wonk with strong ties to the conservative movement, is the second senior official to announce a departure in three days.
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Breaking up the banks would involve arcane and complex regulatory moves that can trip up any banking policy wonk, let alone a presidential candidate.
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"What impressed me beyond his business experience, which is pretty unique, is that he's just a policy wonk," Mr. Bush said in an interview.
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" And during his interview with O'Reilly, he accused the budget policy wonk of backing "very, very bad budgets" and favoring "open borders and amnesty.
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BERLIN — If you don't happen to be a foreign policy wonk, you've probably never heard of Instex, the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges.
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And this campaign, and indeed her career, has shown that she is not only a policy wonk but is also an admirer of Lincoln.
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And Carson previewed Trump, the general election candidate, one who will be able to go toe-to-toe with Hillary Clinton, the policy wonk.
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Trump is nobody's idea of a policy wonk, but he has signed on to a real agenda, and if he wins he'll probably implement it.
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Trump is neither an ideologist nor a policy wonk; his feelings about the world have little in the way of connective tissue or workable implications.
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But their fears are likely misplaced, says Steve Bell, a longtime budget Senate staffer and now an economic policy wonk at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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Staub likes both candidates but contrasted Sanders' history as a grassroots organizer with Warren's more recent emergence as a leading progressive with "policy wonk" plans.
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In freshman orientation, Mr. Israel said, representatives are asked what kind of member they want to be: an activist, a policy wonk, a political leader.
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Warren has carved out a space for herself as a detailed policy wonk who is more palatable to moderates than Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.
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But more fundamentally, neither alleged master tactician Mitch McConnell nor alleged policy wonk Paul Ryan are nearly as impressive as some of their press hype suggests.
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The actor leaves behind the action-hero antics of the counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer to play a policy wonk thrust into a job he never wanted.
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Kaptur — known as a policy wonk — has taken a lighter touch, shoring up support from her closest allies in the Ohio delegation and other Midwestern states.
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But in today's politics, where identity too often is destiny, Trump will benefit from having a liberal, Ivy League Democratic policy wonk make his constitutional arguments.
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That, along with his time as Trump's budget director, have won Mulvaney a reputation as a policy wonk in what is often a detail-averse White House.
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Enter Evan McMullin, the former CIA staffer and GOP policy wonk, running for the presidency on a Never Trump ticket -- backed by a cabal of Republican donors.
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Clinton, a politics junkie and policy wonk who as first lady wanted an office in the West Wing and led Bill Clinton's health care task force, Mrs.
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For Ryan, a self-described policy wonk who's chaired both the influential Ways and Means and Budget committees, that political philosophy has so far served him well.
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Other colleagues offered a reminder that the Senate is not necessarily the worst back-up plan for failed presidential candidates — particularly for a policy wonk like Warren.
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He was stunned, he said, that Mr. Rosselló, an engineer whom Mr. Fortuño had viewed as a "policy wonk," could be so callous and careless in private.
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"That mixture of policy wonk and street-level activist were what interested me in him in the first place," said Marshall Curry, the director of the documentary.
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How could House Republicans under the leadership of Paul Ryan, who the media keeps assuring us is a smart, serious policy wonk, have produced such a monstrosity?
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Even if Donald Trump were the great deal maker he claims to be, or Paul Ryan the policy wonk he poses as, this thing just can't work.
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In an era of rule-by-tweet, she is an unashamed policy wonk who is now a front-runner to be the Democratic nominee for president in 20113.
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No. Like her or not, Hillary Clinton is a genuine policy wonk, who can think on her feet and clearly knows what she is talking about on many issues.
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He explained he's on the "policy wonk end of the spectrum" and likes to surround himself with experts on all subjects to help him make the best possible decisions.
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Trump is not a policy wonk, and the White House says he'll reaffirm his desire to work on broad goals such as tax reform and repealing and replacing ObamaCare .
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He escalated as a rising GOP star and policy wonk, ultimately becoming the chairman of two major committees, the 2012 GOP vice presidential candidate and speaker of the House.
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Known as a no-nonsense player and policy wonk, Ms. Nielsen appears unlikely to land at the center of the type of controversies that have engulfed Mr. Trump's presidency.
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During the White House meeting, Trump, far from a policy wonk, gave some clarity on at least one policy issue: He voiced support for renewing the Export-Import Bank.
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To this day one sometimes reads articles portraying Ryan as a serious policy wonk, despite abundant evidence of his unseriousness and real questions about his actual command of policy.
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She's known as a policy wonk, but she'll probably have a slightly less heavy-duty conversation when she appears with James Corden on "The Late Late Show" on Tuesday.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Republican Party's policy wonk in chief, has long advocated for some of the welfare changes that party colleagues are trying to decide how to package.
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Before the controversial video surfaced, Portman, a soft-spoken veteran of Washington and proud policy wonk, said Trump's unorthodox candidacy helped his re-election race by energizing the GOP base.
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He's also chairman of the House Budget Committee, is known as a policy wonk and would add another well-known Capitol Hill name to Trump's budding cabinet, along with Rep.
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"The Boards of Trustees puts out a whole book of any policy idea in any pieces of legislation or suggested by any policy wonk," said Social Security expert Alicia Munnell.
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"Kirstjen's a policy wonk at heart, especially when it comes to cyber," Frank Cilluffo, a former senior homeland security official under Bush who worked with Nielsen at George Washington University.
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A critical test With his telegenic appearance, his reputation as a policy wonk and his well-documented ambition, California's Democratic Governor has long been viewed as a likely presidential contender.
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As Warren brands herself has the progressive policy wonk, ready and eager to dive deeply into each of her many, intricately crafted proposals, Sanders pivots back to his political revolution.
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A former prep-school history teacher with an M.B.A. from Oxford University, she speaks in rapid-fire sentences that pivot quickly in tone from policy wonk to street-savvy organizer.
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As a policy wonk at the American Enterprise Institute, he's been an active voice in drug policy since then, including frequent contributions to the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial page.
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So when we fantasize about electing a celebrity as president, we're not imagining that Oprah is secretly a brilliant legislator or that the Rock has hidden depths as a policy wonk.
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Ryan has long tried to make a Republican case on fighting poverty in the House, and he has built a reputation around being a policy wonk with command of the issues.
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He isn't an ideologue like Ted Cruz, an opportunist like Marco Rubio, a movement builder like Bernie Sanders, a political legatee like Jeb Bush or a policy wonk like Hillary Clinton.
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This goes in particular for Mr. Ryan, who has received extraordinarily favorable press treatment over the years — portrayed as an honest, serious policy wonk with a sincere concern for fiscal probity.
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You don't need to be a democratic socialist firebrand or an advocate for the poor or even a policy wonk to see that something is deeply, deeply out of whack here.
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After multiple Republican bills spectacularly fizzled out this summer, Cassidy teamed up with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, not known as a health policy wonk, to give it one more try.
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To the Editor: Re "A Bill So Bad It's Awesome" (column, March 10): Paul Krugman is right that Speaker Paul Ryan does not deserve his reputation as a serious policy wonk.
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He needs to explain in specific (not theoretical policy wonk terms) why being in the EU is to France's advantage and why leaving would be painful and affect people's wallets and livelihood.
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It's true that he is not a passionate policy wonk; nor does he seem like someone who is deeply invested, on a personal level, in the non-immigration aspects of his policy agenda.
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As any debate aficionado will tell you, Clinton is a policy wonk who meticulously prepares for any and every matchup as she gets ready to walk onstage resplendent in her pantsuit of choice.
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"As often happens, this long-term problem that requires a huge allocation of funding to make a difference takes a back seat to more politically immediate priorities," said infrastructure policy wonk Joel Moser.
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At first glance, it struck me as the kind of market-based plan conservative policy wonk Avik Roy, who once worked for Mitt Romney, would come up with if asked to replace ObamaCare.
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A failure to pass a budget would be an embarrassment for Ryan, a former Budget chairman whose reputation as the GOP's star policy wonk was solidified with his work on annual spending blueprints.
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That means Republicans have the space to pivot to tax reform, which Cato Institute fiscal policy wonk Dan Mitchell told me is their last chance to score a big policy win in 2017.
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Staub, who is involved in local politics in Manchester, likes both candidates but contrasted Sanders' history as a grassroots organizer with Warren's more recent emergence as a leading progressive with "policy wonk" plans.
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So she started to build and roll out a series of detailed policy proposals designed to put the Native American flap behind her (again) and carve out space as the race's resident policy wonk.
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Two years later, when he was selected as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, he was hailed as a policy wonk inside the party and in media — making him the logical heir to conservatism.
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Killing the mandate also psyches up some on the right who could have opposed the bill for other reasons, Joe Antos, a health policy wonk at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told me.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, a policy wonk who once chaired the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, was the most senior lawmaker to address Trump's troubles Monday in comments that were relatively tepid.
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Casting himself as the heir to Jack Kemp's brand of compassionate conservatism, but also a new kind of right-wing policy wonk, he hoodwinked Beltway journalists for years and nearly got away with it.
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But the policy wonk and Republican thought leader departs without meaningful action on the agenda that led to his rise as a national Republican figure -- reforming entitlement programs and tackling the nation's debt crisis.
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While he is no policy wonk — "nobody knew that health care could be so complicated," he famously said at one point — he has shown more comfort with the details of his tax-cutting legislation.
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It's not that vague, personality-driven campaigns don't succeed—Barack Obama became famous for his Beto-esque speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and ran as an inspirational figure rather than a policy wonk.
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An epic Twitter thread from policy wonk Sam Bell has dug up Moore calling for rate hikes in August 2008, not to mention the abolition of the Fed and the reinstatement of the gold standard.
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The 250-year-old Newsom is considered a policy wonk by those who know him, as well as someone with a record of taking bold risks, or trying new approaches when he believes it's right.
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Even as a teenager in the Houston suburbs, he was a policy wonk drawn to other extracurricular activities like membership in the "Constitutional Corroborators," the group that memorized a shortened mnemonic version of the Constitution.
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One of Cruz's first votes after he was sworn in as a senator in January 2013 was against one of Ryan's budgets that had helped put the self-described policy wonk on the national map.
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Warren's credibility as the campaign's consummate policy wonk took a hit when she failed to come up with a convincing plan to cover the staggering cost of moving 228 million Americans to the Medicare rolls.
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He clearly believes that he can address the ills that face the nation, while Clinton appeared to be a policy wonk detached from the impact of the policies she has supported, hoping no one would notice.
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Wheeler, however, proved critics wrong by showing himself to be a thoughtful policy wonk who pushed hard for the strong net neutrality rules advocated by Obama, consumer advocates, and most anyone not affiliated with internet providers.
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How it expected to win with an overly cautious, graying policy wonk with a tendency toward building bunkers when media scrutiny gets intense will be a question answered by countless studies, columns and unauthorized tell-alls.
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Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, has a reputation as a policy wonk, committed to fiscal responsibility, that is utterly incomprehensible if you look at the slapdash, fundamentally dishonest policy documents he actually puts out.
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Warren was dismissed early on by some as a "school marm" in love with lecturing, which emphasized her bona fides as a Harvard professor and a policy wonk more than her economically difficult upbringing in Oklahoma.
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About Ryan: Incredibly, I'm seeing some news reports about his exit that portray him as a serious policy wonk and fiscal hawk who, sadly, found himself unable to fulfill his mission in the Trump era. Unbelievable.
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Ryan, the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, is a serious policy wonk who has made a career out of building an image as a Ronald Reagan-Jack Kemp hybrid — ideologically stringent but with a sunny disposition.
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Researcher, policy wonk, and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande had heard them all: Medicaid doesn't work, driving down coverage rates will result in more deaths, insurance coverage doesn't actually improve health or mortality, and on and on.
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This achievement was years in the making for House Speaker Paul Ryan, solidifying his place in history as a policy wonk with the political skills to see through something as complicated as changing the US tax code.
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Cesar Conda, a former Hill aide and ally of Ryan's, said that he's watched him evolve over the years from staffer to speaker, gaining momentum and skills that the policy wonk didn't possess in the earlier days.
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Center-right policy wonk Julio Guzmán had recently emerged as the only contender capable of challenging runaway frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, who is campaigning on the controversial hard-right legacy of her father, jailed 1990s president Alberto Fujimori.
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Mr. Azar, who describes himself as a policy wonk, joined the administration of President George W. Bush as general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services in 2001 and became deputy secretary four years later.
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In the Democratic primary delegate caucus I presented myself to my fellow Berniecrats as a "Policy Wonk", and was elected from a field of over seventy candidates to be one of the eight district delegates to represent Sen.
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That Mr. Ryan failed on the policy promise that Republicans have been running on for eight years makes it clear that if he is the policy wonk of the Republican Party, then the Republican Party has no policy.
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And while Gingrich is much more of a policy wonk than Trump, he has a fondness for odd ideas, like literal moon colonies, that likely wouldn't do much to discourage the idea the Republican presidential campaign is a sideshow.
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"When Bernie was talking Medicare for All, everybody was like 'Oh cool' and then they turned to me and they said 'Fix it, Mom," said actor Kate McKinnon, who plays Warren as a lusty policy wonk on the show.
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Jane Horvath, a lawyer who previously served as global privacy counsel at Google, is the group's legal and policy wonk, often channeling the views of Apple's board and citing regulatory requirements, said former employees who have worked with her.
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Never mind that Ryan's Democratic critics have castigated him for repudiating a reputation as a policy wonk and years of warnings about the perils of bloating deficits and swelling government debt, by embracing a bill that does exactly that.
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He reminisces about his joy in spending time with her while he ran the party in California, in his book calling her a policy wonk with a "wicked sense of humor," and said he's always looked upon her favorably.
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Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), a policy wonk and former House Ways and Means Committee chairman, joined fellow GOP leaders at a news conference Thursday to make the case that the legislation gives a windfall to the middle class.
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Haley selected Jon Lerner as her deputy ambassador — not an experienced foreign policy wonk to help her learn the ropes, but her longtime pollster and a strategist who played a key role in coordinating the NeverTrump campaign in 2016.
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The international news media are fond of promoting her as a new kind of unconventional 21st-century leader — the unmarried mother and policy wonk who wore a traditional Maori cloak, while pregnant, to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen.
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However, it seems that the campaign is finally catching on, according to Politico: But even as Clinton's hipness comes under question, her aides say she'll embrace her age—68, which is actually two years younger than Trump—and inner policy wonk.
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One Labour policy wonk impishly suggests the incoming government could follow the example of the Bolsheviks in 1917 and immediately publish highly sensitive documents relating to previous governments—perhaps those related to the Iraq war or the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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To amplify the message, the self-described policy wonk plans to hold an anti-poverty event at a nearby site, attend a roundtable discussion on healthcare and give remarks at a national security event, among other appearances, aides told The Hill.
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Since his primary win, Rose has been asked that question a lot, as he's contorted himself into a political force: a gregarious but relatable policy wonk, a veteran for the forgotten man in the straight-talking, swashbuckling, swamp-draining mold of Donald Trump.
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In addition to being an international trade policy wonk, Mr. Punke is the author of "The Revenant," a 219 novel about a 22010th-century American fur trapper's epic struggle for survival in the wilderness, and the inspiration for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film.
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The real takeaway of the story is to introduce you to a Hillary we all know—the smarty-pantsuit valedictorian and policy wonk who does the tedious homework, masters the footnotes, and gets an A+ for effort on the day's big legislative assignment.
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It was nifty because it answered a different question from the one asked: namely, Mrs Clinton pretended that she had been asked why she is not better liked, and explained that perhaps she is a doughty slogger and policy wonk who lacks charisma.
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Ryan, who prides himself on being a policy wonk, who has also been his party's vice presidential nominee in 2012 and found a way to be begged into the job of speaker when John Boehner retired, is an even more accomplished politician.
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Hype springs eternal — certainly when it comes to Paul Ryan, whose media image as a Serious, Honest Conservative and policy wonk seems utterly impervious to repeated demonstrations that he is neither serious nor honest, and that he actually knows very little about policy.
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Specifically, her use of a Ralph Lauren navy wool double-faced pantsuit with a cream shawl collar and cream wool top to better frame the jovial-serenity-atop-policy-wonk approach with which she has chosen to contrast herself with Mr. Trump.
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But even though Kaine's a policy wonk in many ways, he speaks like a normal human being, one you'd probably enjoy sharing a beer with (something I had the chance to do at the Governor's Mansion in Richmond after Kaine was elected).
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But she is also more of a policy wonk than Sanders, and her campaign has a bigger policy apparatus, so her financial regulation plan is considerably more comprehensive than Sanders's and addresses issues — like shadow banking — that are outside the scope of Sanders's proposals.
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Clinton has achieved such overwhelming party insider support that the Sanders campaign is largely cut off from access to the kind of para-party policy wonk universe that would allow Sanders to release campaign proposals that pass muster by the traditional rules of the game.
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The 41-year-old former senator and one-time Washington policy wonk managed a meteoric rise after forming a tight-knit relationship with Álvaro Uribe, the popular former president (2002-2010) who looks poised to maintain his status as political kingmaker from his Senate perch.
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Candidates who had prepared stacks of detailed policy documents or who had real experience in government tried to take on Trump over substance during the primary debates, often seeming to score points against a person who has admitted repeatedly that he's not a policy wonk.
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The proud policy wonk of a president couldn't help but add a policy critique, praising emerging Democratic proposals like Medicare-for-all or giving workers seat on corporate boards — a rhetorical embrace of a much more leftist politics than Obama himself ever pursued in office.
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" Flynn, in a book with Michael Ledeen, a foreign policy wonk at the right-wing Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, wrote: "We're in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, most of them inspired by a totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam.
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With a wink of self-deprecation for being a policy wonk, Gore said he had gone through Clinton's climate policies "with a fine-toothed comb" and was impressed by the commitment to install half a billion solar panels by the end of her first term.
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She relates to the people she meets on a personal level rather than always going all policy-wonk on them, like when she asked for a woman's mother's name during a campaign stop in Iowa after hearing that the mother had fled domestic abuse in Mexico.
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Get technical Candidates who had prepared stacks of detailed policy documents or who had real experience in government tried to take on Trump over substance during the primary debates, often seeming to score points against a person who has admitted repeatedly that he's not a policy wonk.
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The noted policy wonk has been optimistic for months that tax reform can be accomplished this year, and after the Senate failed to pass health care legislation last month, he was one of the first leaders to say it was time to move on to tax reform.
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The study, which is a dystopian page turner even if you are not a policy wonk, reported that older Americans face inadequate income and unmanageable health care costs, resulting from a shrinking safety net and the shift of risk from government and employers to individuals themselves.
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After years of policy wonk arguments about the labor market impact of immigration, Donald Trump has centered his immigration politics on a rhetoric of physical threat that hooks in well with the idea that the inflow of people from Latin America is per se a problem.
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Instead of admonishing parents who make the decision to look beyond their local public school for their kids&apos education, Warren — the noted progressive policy wonk — could have plainly elucidated her vision to improve public education so that more schools become these parents&apos first choice.
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" Ellison is not a policy wonk; he talks about such imperatives as "raising the minimum wage, putting money into the schools, staving off environmental disaster" in long, rolling clusters, and often ends by declaiming the point of the whole thing: "Just improving the quality of people's lives!
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Following her remarks to a majority-black female audience, the Warren campaign sharpened its messaging to include issues unique to black Americans like maternal mortality rates and racial justice, an approach that some activists say helped alter the perception that Warren was a detached policy wonk.
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In the fall of 2007, when Barack Obama was struggling to gain ground against Hillary Clinton, his advisers told him he would never win a white paper war against a policy wonk like Clinton, and he needed to turn the race to a contest about character.
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I serve as Chief Policy Wonk (yes, we get to pick our own titles) of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture — not a government agency, but a people-powered action network of artists and allies inciting creativity and social imagination to shape a culture of empathy, equity, and belonging.
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And Trump is not alone in being conned: House Speaker Paul Ryan has been fooling a lot of people for a long time, making the world believe that he's the foremost Republican policy wonk, an expert in the fine print of budgets who could bring a much-needed seriousness to Washington.
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If Biden were a hard-core policy wonk, he would've said that the evaluations of this program are pretty good, but their helpfulness is limited by compliance, and so he wants to put more resources into it to try to improve on both the depth and breadth of their reach.
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The polarizing path Nielsen has taken is somewhat surprising for a government bureaucrat and policy wonk known more for her loyalty to White House chief of staff John Kelly and her expertise in cybersecurity than for the hard-line immigration views espoused by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House adviser Stephen Miller.
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Given that our country has consistently climbed down the educational attainment ladder, and that inane and banal reality TV shows draw more eyeballs than books and opera, it should not surprise us that a growing swath of the electorate is more enthused by a coarse, bullying celebrity than by an awkward policy wonk.
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" Chris Jennings, a Democratic policy wonk: "The political question is this: Is the relatively harmlessness of the policy in real terms worth the time to develop, implement and confuse people (and in some cases get them mad) worth the political benefit of having more broad-based political investment in the Affordable Care Act?
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Warren, for example, established herself as an effective and detailed policy wonk who has a plan for everything, but she peaked early in the polls and was bogged down at times by the rollout of her health care proposal and her use of a DNA test to try to prove Native American ancestry.
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They can be found, however, at a little digital publication he launched called Biden Forum: A Conversation About the Future of the Middle Class that's housed at the Biden Foundation and run by Ben Harris, a Northwestern University professor and veteran DC policy wonk who served as Biden's top economic advisor during Obama's second term.
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House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.), a notorious policy wonk and former House Budget Committee chairman, even floated the possibility of not adopting a budget if a majority of Republican couldn't agree to one.
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That's why John F. Kennedy beat Richard Nixon, a genial Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter (who came across as tight and testy), the relaxed and amiable Bill Clinton beat George H. W. Bush, his son George W. Bush beat the policy-wonk-sounding Al Gore, and why in this year's first presidential debate Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump.
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And Paul Ryan, the current but departing speaker, is a flimflam man: a fake deficit hawk whose one legislative achievement is a budget-busting tax cut, a fake policy wonk whose budget proposals were always obvious smoke and mirrors, pretending to address the budget deficit but actually just redistributing income from the poor to the rich.
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IF HILLARY CLINTON were a high-flying policy wonk seeking a post in the National Security Council, her hopes would surely be dashed by the FBI's judgment, delivered on July 5th by the bureau's director, James Comey, that she had been "extremely careless" in her handling of very sensitive, highly classified information during a previous job at the State Department.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.), a policy wonk and former House Ways and Means Committee chairman, joined fellow GOP leaders at a news conference Thursday to make the case that the legislation gives a windfall to the middle class.
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I am not advocating that every president needs to be a policy wonk like President Obama and President Clinton were (and how the second President Clinton would have been), but there is no denying how their policy chops and their interest in truly understanding the underpinnings of the proposals they lent their names to, helped guide their vision to lead the country and give the American people a better life.
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Roem, a policy wonk from her political reporting career, has oriented her campaign around unclogging Route 28, which runs from the suburban 13th District into Washington, DC. "While she has talked about her gender identity, she is also trying to focus on certain bread-and butter issues, like traffic congestion, which is a big deal in Northern Virginia in particular," Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told BuzzFeed News.
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Saturday night's debate particularly reaffirmed my allegiance to Trump's candidacy because he spoke to all generations about the concerns we face and thoughts we have: China's disrespect; Islamic terrorism; illegal aliens crossing our border; the prudence in eminent domain when absolutely necessary; proper support for cops and veterans; a hard line in foreign affairs and military diplomacy to ensure a global stability; the notion that 50 years in business and a recognized skill in negotiation is superior to a gifted debater, lifelong politician or policy wonk.
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"We appreciate the work Monica Biddix has done on the campaign and we wish her the best in all of her future endeavors, but we are excited about the focus and expertise Brent will bring to the campaign, particularly with our new Heartland StartUp Tour and showing Iowans that John's not just a smart, truth-telling policy wonk; he's also a former Entrepreneur-of-the-Year and is the only Democrat in the field who has both real-world experience in business and in Congress," said campaign manager Xan Fishman.
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