Sentences with phrase «congressional oversight»

Congressional oversight regarding the VHA has recently focused on: (1) ambiguous policies and inconsistent processes, (2) inadequate oversight and accountability, (3) information technology challenges, (4) inadequate training for staff, and (5) unclear resource needs and allocation priorities.

Their call represents the first official request from a congressional oversight committee for Zuckerberg's appearance amid demands by lawmakers that Facebook explain reports that Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of more than 50 million Facebook users in order to sway elections.

Their call represented the first official request from a congressional oversight committee for Zuckerberg's appearance as lawmakers demanded that Facebook explain reports that Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

For example, federal agencies must not withhold information from a Congressional oversight committee or the General Accounting Office.

A lot of worrisome «smaller» federal sentencing issues that could benefit most from congressional oversight and legislative reform — the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act, child porn victim restitution awards, fast - track departures, the persistent growth of the federal criminal docket — did not even get mentioned.

This committee chairperson is making Congressional oversight much more difficult, because who will want to bother voluntarily appearing to be a witness if this is the sort of thing the opposing party will pull.

\ ALL government agencies have to report to multiple elected officials, as I said: The president, congressional oversight committees, individual congressmen and senators.

I dedicated the better part of a chapter in my book, «The Liberal War on Transparency,» to a high - profile example of this behavior, one which prompted congressional oversight and was ultimately smacked down by an Inspector General.

MICHAEL MANN: One of the things that Lamar Smith has said publicly, the chair of the House Science Committee we were talking about, is he would like to get rid of peer review at the National Science Foundation and replace that with congressional oversight.

The scaling back of the Administration's commitment to a strong Earth Science research and observations program at NASA should be the subject of in - depth Congressional oversight.

In my judgment, the following are of particular significance for the public interest and for Congressional oversight at this time:

Congressional oversight should include a focus on the Climate Change Science Program and the CCSP Office as well as the agencies.

Agencies like the EPA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have rejected and ignored congressional oversight, particularly inquiries from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, led by Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas).

The only meaningful place to attack this crap is in the Republican controlled Congressional oversight committees.

He has used the threat of «Congressional oversight» to harass scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including subpoenaing its administrator, Kathryn Sullivan, a scientist and ex-NASA astronaut.

When the Congressional oversight committee gets a hold of the emails of NOAA scientists conspiring to erase the pause that is killing the cause, that will put a chill on the politicization of NOAA scientists.

Do you think that gubmint sighintists are exempt from Congressional oversight?

Smith is forced to subpoena information he wants to look at, because the Obama administration defies Congressional oversight.

The reality is that Politically Correct Progressives throughout the bureaucracies are empowered to bend, twist, shred and break laws regarding open records, Freedom of Information, Congressional oversight, and many more requirements for transparency.

«I suspect a judge will laugh at NOAA's claim of an exemption from Congressional oversight to protect «the integrity of the scientific process.

Do you think that it's a good idea for allegedly innocent subjects of Congressional oversight investigations to go with the stonewalling option?

«but Congressional oversight and investigation into what is going on in government labs does not seem inappropriate under these circumstances.»

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D - Tex) called the request «a serious misuse of Congressional oversight powers.»

Regulatory capture can be countered only by vigorous public scrutiny and Congressional oversight, but in the 32 years since Three Mile Island, interest in nuclear regulation has declined precipitously.

Given the lack of independence of the Fed over the past 23 years, additional Congressional oversight could not hurt much.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had direct congressional oversight.

The chairwoman of a Congressional oversight panel that is examining the $ 700 billion taxpayer bailout of the financial sector testified Wednesday that insurance giant AIG â $ œwas a corporate Frankenstein, a conglomeration of banking and insurance and investment interests that defied regulatory oversight.â $

Right now the Federal Reserve can change the interest rate at any time without congressional oversight which is a form of taxation without representation.

We need to ensure that there is appropriate congressional oversight on how the financial services legislation will be implemented.

For some of us in the Executive Branch, spring is near when your congressional oversight committees call wanting to schedule hearings.

No such limitations apply to records requested for Congressional oversight or legislative purposes; release is authorized under 49 CFR 10.35 (9).

The same John Kline who wants to repeal much of the health care overhaul and looks forward to «increased congressional oversight» of the executive branch.

At the markup, subcommittee members again rejected an amendment to reduce the authorization from five to three years, which Republicans said would allow for better congressional oversight of NIST's programs.

The biggest problem with this proposal is that it is congressional oversight of our public aviation system that protects all of these critical services and use of small airports and aircraft, along with routes to small and mid-sized communities.

Faso also criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an unconstitutional bureaucracy that operated without congressional oversight.

The congressional oversight of the PFOA situation in Hoosick Falls comes as the Democratic - led state Assembly plans hearings on water quality issues in early September, assessing issues on both Long Island and in the Capital Region.

A Republican - led congressional oversight committee has announced plans to review the response to the contamination in the village.

«These actions are not a responsible approach to congressional oversight, they continue a trend of generating unnecessary conflict for the sake of publicity, and they are shockingly disrespectful to the secretary of state,» the Maryland Democrat said in a statement.

Her most recent book, Deliberating Monetary Policy, seeks to examine the role and influence of deliberation in US monetary policy in two institutional settings — the decision making body itself (the Federal Open Market Committee) and the congressional oversight committees (House and Senate).

Even then, Obama ignored that requirement in Libya, setting a new precedent that all but deligetimized Congressional oversight

The Constitution gives the President unique powers in foreign policy (it is his primary Constitutional portfolio) and the President is responsible for meeting with and negotiating the terms of any treaty the United States wishes to enter into independently (without any Congressional oversight).

And six months after the Democratic Party took control of both houses of Congress, the prison at Guantánamo Bay was still open and conducting drumhead courts martial of the prisoners held there; the CIA was still using «enhanced interrogation techniques» on prisoners in foreign jails; illegal intrusions into the privacy of American citizens continued unabated; and, more than fifty years after the CIA was founded, it continues to operate under, at best, the most perfunctory congressional oversight.

By now, for example, the privatization of military and intelligence functions is totally out of control, beyond the law, and beyond any form of Congressional oversight.

• In the past congressional oversight has all too often been no more sharp - eyed than Edward V. Long's hearings in 1966 on electronic surveillance.

However, it is still subject to Congressional oversight and must work within the framework of the government's economic and financial policy objectives.

In order to facilitate appropriate congressional oversight, the Executive Branch may entrust classified information to the appropriate committees of Congress, as it has done in connection with the Committee's oversight activities here.

But in fact NASA has spent nearly a billion dollars on SpaceX, with barely any congressional oversight.

The Act also would replace the current CFPB's single director with a bipartisan, five - member commission subject to congressional oversight and appropriations.

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff (D - CA) told the Washington Post on Sunday he believes it would be «beneficial» for Zuckerberg and other major tech CEOs to testify before congressional oversight committees.

In August 2007, 22 members of the House of Representatives asked George Bush to back away from the SPP because of their concerns that it may undermine U.S. sovereignty and their strong objections about important discussions continuing «out of public view and without congressional oversight or approval» or the «proper transparency and accountability.»