Maybe in response to growing dissent, policies will change.
She has not been dissenting in Fed policy statements; on the contrary, she helped make the Fed's current policy a reality.
After Mr. Blood's consulate sent an extraordinary cable formally dissenting from American policy, decrying what it called genocide, Nixon and Kissinger ousted Mr. Blood from his post in East Pakistan.
Yet the raid on his home may have given him an opportunity to recast himself once again, now as a dissenting voice on American policy in Iraq.
On 30 August Chamberlain met with his Cabinet and Ambassador Henderson and secured their backing with only First Lord of the Admiralty Duff Cooper dissenting against Chamberlain's policy to pressure Czechoslovakia into making concessions on the ground that Britain was then in no position to back up any threat to go to war.
The last time three Fed officials dissented from a policy decision was nearly two years ago.
Mr. Ryan did not mention that he had served on that commission and dissented from its policy proposals, which included specific steps to reduce budget deficits.
He dissented from government policy on the 50p rate of income tax, the lack of a referendum on the Lisbon treaty and Kenneth Clarke's plan to cut sentences.
Last year, when he was a voting member of the open market committee, Mr. Hoenig dissented on monetary policy decisions at every meeting.
James B. Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St . Louis who is on the Fed committee that shapes monetary policy, dissented to the Fed's statement on Wednesday and registered his disagreement with some of the committee's decisions.
Two members of the Federal Open Market Committee, the arm of the central bank that decides rate policy, dissented from the decision, both preferring to cut only 50 basis points.
