While the budget battle between the White House and Republicans is fiercely partisan, there has been less disagreement on his foreign policy – with the exception of Libya, which is becoming a fast-growing source of resentment on Capitol Hill among members of both parties.
And it meant most policy issues, with the exception of the handling of the economy, were marginalised.
Kaine and Clinton consistently agree on most policy positions — with the exception of abortion.
In fact, it looks as though Hillary has moved left in almost all policy areas, with the exception of Israel.
Such a laissez-faire view is supposed to be the UK's current policy, with the exceptions of defence (on grounds of security) and media (plurality).
If the Republicans can't turn their trifecta of control into a conservative policy victory – and with the exception of the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the supreme court, the Republicans under Trump, Ryan and McConnell have yet to achieve any major victory – it will mean that the movement is no longer able to translate its faith in the market into the full-spectrum dominance it once had.
Relative to OLS models estimated with fixed-effects and FGLS models fitted for panel data, the effects of ALMPs on labour market variables appear generally more effective in IV models, which account for the endogeneity of policy and implementation variables, with the exception of the unemployment rates, where OLS and FGLS coefficients are generally higher.
With the economy still weak, policy makers in Washington (with the exception of the Federal Reserve) are busy trying to find creative new ways to slash government spending and slow the economy even further.
"Absent a radical sea change from the courts, or more likely intervention from the Congress, the coffin is slamming shut on the ability of private citizens and civil liberties groups to challenge government counterterrorism policies, with the possible exception of Guantánamo," said Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at American University.
