Sentences with phrase «lack federal oversight»

Without those rules in place, consumers lack federal oversight and protection if they are being treated unfairly when pursuing an automobile loan.

Adaptation: Adaptation measures taken thus far in Nigeria have centered around educational initiatives, but the country still lacks a federal oversight body for the purpose of coordinating research and policy.

Not exact matches

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

JULIE LANE PHOTO County Legislator Ed Romaine pointed a finger at federal legislators Tim Bishop and Charles Schumer for a lack of oversight on helicopter routes along the North Fork.

In a report out this week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a nonprofit regulatory authority charged by the federal government with oversight of reliability in U.S. power systems, found that it still lacked adequate analysis to know whether the plan's targets are achievable.

DeVos's oversight — or slight — came as no surprise given her admitted lack of awareness of the federal special education law at her confirmation hearing.

Reporting in 2010 on the lack of charter - school oversight in states throughout the country, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Education raised concerns that state - level education departments were failing «to provide adequate oversight needed to ensure that Federal funds [were] properly used and accounted for.»

OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency is unable to adequately assess and track potentially millions of tax cheats in the country because of lack of resources, and weak oversight and enforcement practices, the federal Auditor - General said Tuesday.

These changes in market structure to favor the few were accomplished by various means: lack of oversight leading to concentration of market power through mergers and acquisitions, outright government subsidies to industry in various forms, including explicit subsidies to the equities and housing markets (among others) by the Federal Reserve to create a trickle down «wealth effect» in those markets, changes in the tax structure which increase the concentration of wealth, etc..

Lack of federal oversight is still the case for coal ash, the toxic substance that remains after coal is burned.