He didn't write the document, but he approved it.
Selig will scrutinize this complex deal before he approves it.
Then John McCain pops up to say he approved it.
Peavy refused a trade to the White Sox in May, but he approved it this time.
When dealers asked Mr. Farley to carve out part of the national ad budget for regional campaigns, he approved it.
Yet the record shows that Mr. Witt not only approved the plan, he approved it every year during his eight-year tenure as FEMA's director.
The proposed project by a Canadian pipeline company, TransCanada, similarly put the president in a political vise, squeezed between the demand for a secure source of oil and the thousands of jobs the project will bring, and the loud agitation of environmental advocates who threatened to withhold electoral support next year if he approved it.
Jones, the national security adviser from January 2009-November 2010, on how over time President Obama grew more comfortable with the drone program: "At first when [then-C.I.A. director Leon] Panetta came to him with certain missions there was rigorous questioning and analysis about the unintended consequences of a mission if he approved it.
And General Cone, a West Point graduate who took command here in late September, has maintained a policy started by his predecessor that requires commanders to let their units go home by 3 p.m. on Thursdays and prohibits weekend training, unless he approves it.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who yielded to years of pressure for an inquiry when he approved it this summer, has been criticized for delaying to the point that the panel's final report, now expected at the end of 2010 or later, will not be available when Britons vote in a general election next spring.
