Sentences with phrase «creation of the watchdog»

Board member Ken Olisa talks to us about why MPs shouldn't need to sleep in their offices and how some mistakes were inevitable because of the rapid creation of the watchdog.

Business secretary to announce creation of watchdog to monitor progress of white paper goals as biotech investment revealed

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The U.S. consumer watchdog agency, enmeshed in partisan politics since its creation after the 2008 financial crisis, is now at the center of a tug - of - war...

The state's chief fiscal watchdog is hoping Governor Andrew Cuomo will sign a bill that increases the monitoring of industrial development agencies, ensuring that companies receiving tax breaks live up to job - creation promises.

[267] This led to Labour leader Ed Miliband calling the PCC a «toothless poodle,» and in agreement with Prime Minister David Cameron proposed the creation of a new press watchdog.

While Mark has acted as the taxpayers» watchdog and called out wasteful spending and irresponsible actions, he has also lead the charge to make a more efficient county government by pushing for the creation of Erie County's prescription drug discount program and the adoption of electronic payments for vendors saving the County and those that do business with the County time and money.

The MTA's official watchdog group is pushing for the creation of a special fare that would allow some New York City residents access to transfer among buses, subways and the Long Island Rail Road for a single, discounted price.

In 2011, Cuomo pushed an ethics overhaul measure that included greater disclosure of outside income and the creation of a new watchdog entity, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

One of the law's most prominent planks was the creation of the NYPD Inspector General, an independent police department watchdog that would audit NYPD practices and operations and make recommendations on improvements.

Another board member described demands from Ottawa's competition watchdog to draft new policies enabling the creation of Virtual Office Websites (VOWs) as «worse than a knee replacement» in terms of the pain it could cause traditional bricks - and - mortar realtors.