The phrase "a policy that speaks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a policy that is clear, effective, or communicates its intentions well.
Example: "The new environmental policy is a policy that speaks to our commitment to sustainability and responsible resource management."
Alternatives: "a policy that communicates" or "a policy that conveys".
(text at www.WeCanSolveIt.org) Our accountability: as Barack Obama told Rolling Stone: "If I haven't gotten combat troops out of Iraq, passed universal health care and created a new energy policy that speaks to our dependence on foreign oil and deals seriously with global warming, then we've missed the boat.
This arrested development and often regression lead to public policy that speaks to the limitation and restriction of boundaries aimed at self-security over compassion and cultural hegemony over a human community.
But until our guys get serious saying institutions matter, and having a healthy Party matters, and, equally important, find inspiring policies that speak to this moment and recognize they are not inspiring voters and causing them to lash out in increasingly unconventional ways, we will continue to be stuck in this stalemate".
Having two prominent female candidates in the race, she said, offered an opportunity for May and Leadsom "to use their experiences as women to create policies that speak to the inequalities experienced by half the population.
Now, as then, he is convinced that there are more potential working-class supporters for no-frills Conservative policies that speak to their day-to-day concerns than among the Lib Dems whom Cameron seems to be courting.
He came close to calling for regime change in "reckless" Iran, for policies that "speak openly of mass murder, vowing death to America, destruction to Israel, and ruin for many leaders and nations in this room".
Most people voted not for "policies that speak to me" but for "personalities that speak like me".
Rather than craft and enact policies that speak to the lives women lead today, Republican lawmakers are pushing women — especially single women — to change the way they live, to live as conservative white men wished they did.
In the absence of a policy agenda that speaks to the interests of the beleaguered middle class and the insecurities of blue-collar America, they have fallen back on the rhetoric of, yes, class warfare, pillorying Romney as a wicked capitalist greedhead who enriched himself at the expense of the people Bain laid off.
Tax reduction, someone quipped, was a policy that dared not speak its name.
