Sentences with phrase «oversight as agencies»

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India - based drug manufacturing facilities have been criticized by the FDA in recent years for violating quality standards, as the agency increases oversight of key suppliers to the United States.

The legislation would also strip power from the Financial Stability Oversight Council, an interagency agency group now led by Mnuchin, to label financial firms that are not banks, such as Metlife, «too big to fail» and subject them to tougher regulatory oversight.

While many of the Church committee's 183 recommendations entrust oversight responsibilities to agency types, cabinet officers, and President's men who have been untrustworthy in the past, the Church plan taken as a whole attempts to put our check - and - balance system into better working order — not to tie the hands of intelligence but to enable it to serve a democratic society's needs without undermining its cherished principles.

On his part, another defence lawyer in the case, Chief Akin Olujinmi (SAN), described as «irritating» the oversight excuse given by the agency as the reason for the failure to produce the ex-NSA in court on Tuesday.

Training, too, will be enhanced to include joint exercises between security agencies as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which has oversight of the airports.

Maya Wiley stepped down from her role as chairwoman of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city's independent police oversight agency, to focus on her work at The New School, where she is a professor and senior vice president.

CISLAC calls on the relevant Committees of the NASS to be more proactive in the exercise of her oversight responsibility over the processes and agencies in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, so as to prevent the recurrences of such abuses.

The Public Advocate also serves as an ombudsman for city government, providing oversight for city agencies, investigating citizens» complaints about city services and making proposals to address the shortcomings and failures of those services.

It has legislative oversight of the bi-state agency, but not quite as much as the old bill.

If the immigration exemption stays in the Data Protection Bill, agencies including the Home Office will have the virtually limitless ability to process data without transparency or oversight — with no need for suspicion of criminal activity as long as they cite «immigration control».

The House Committee on National Security and Intelligence is scheduled to visit the Headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) as part of its oversight function to unravel the controversy over the $ 43.4 million recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Apartment 7B in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Delays on a crowded Brooklyn subway line couldn't have happened at a worse time for the MTA — just as Cynthia Nixon was visiting during Thursday's morning rush to attack Gov. Andrew Cuomo's oversight of the transit agency.

Additionally, this committee has oversight over the County's relationship with the Erie County Industrial Development Agency and local industrial development agencies, as well as business and job development and creation.

The Public Advocate serves as an ombudsman for city government, providing oversight for city agencies, investigating citizens» complaints about city services and making proposals to address perceived shortcomings or failures of those services.

NEC should decide on repayment plans for all concerned as well as stepping up oversight function on the relevant agencies to ensure remittance as and at when due.

«At this stage, there is an entire host of outstanding questions and legal concerns surrounding this project that have not been answered to the satisfaction of anyone, including oversight and expert bodies such as: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Citizens Advisory Committee of the New York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the Westchester Municipal Officials Association, not to mention members of the State Legislature and the New York City Council,» Perkins writes.

We have strengthened the role of ISC through the Justice and Security Act 2013, to include oversight of the Agencies» operations as well as their policy, administration and finances.

He also delegated authority, using, for example, the Bureau of Social Services as an oversight agency for all kinds of projects in the state.

These five measures, as outlined by the NPP flagbearer, include providing the requisite leadership to tackle corruption; the scrupulous enforcement of the teachings of the Public Procurement Act (Act 663); the establishment by Act of Parliament of an Office of Independent Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption; the devotion of more resources to enhance the capacity of anti-corruption agencies; and supporting all moves to give Parliament greater oversight capability over the activities of the Executive.

Public authorities are not subject to the same oversight as state agencies, which allows for «backdoor spending,» or the spending of millions of taxpayer dollars without traditional checks and balances.

Turso also noted that Inspector General Philip K. Eure has over ten years of experience with the U.S. Department of Justice, and over a decade as head of the Office of Police Complaints, an oversight agency in Washington, D.C., and that the OIG - NYPD team is led by Mayor Bill de Blasio's own appointee, Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters.

But Dani Lever, a spokeswoman for the governor, characterized his oversight of the financial agency as commonplace.

As DOI Commissioner, Mr. Peters leads an agency with oversight of more than 300,000 City employees in 45 - plus City agencies and dozens of Boards and...

With HASA's growth at hand, Stringer is seeking to ensure that the agency is first revamped, as a recent audit by his office has revealed a startling lack of oversight by HASA related to vendor management and recordkeeping.

Maya Wiley, a former top lawyer for Mayor Bill de Blasio, stepped down from her role as chairwoman of New York City's independent police oversight agency on Thursday.

As chair of the transportation committee, Rodriguez will have more oversight on agencies including the MTA, Department of Transportation and the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

Leaders of the oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, offered public assurances that the department would have limited time — perhaps as few as 20 days — to launch a challenge, but the practice went into effect without any such restrictions.

The Legislative Audit Council is composed of both the director and the board, which serves as the oversight agency for the South Carolina General Assembly.

The task before her is especially important because of the need for this agency to succeed as an impartial panel charged with oversight and enforcement of our state's new ethics law and the pressing need to restore the public's faith in our government and elected officials.»

As head of the committee in charge of EPA oversight, he'll be in position to call agency officials to task and air conservatives» many grievances with environmental regulation.

As the Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of the cleanup of this neighborhood stretches into its eighth year, new research has linked PCBs exposure to a high rate of diabetes in this community of about 4,000 people, nearly all African American and half living in poverty.

It would receive $ 8.7 million to extend its review of antibacterial drugs and oversight of antibiotics in livestock as part of the Combating Antibiotic - Resistant Bacteria (CARB) initiative, a national strategy that has prompted Congress to nearly double overall spending on antibiotic resistance across several agencies, to $ 774 million in 2016.

Microbiologist Richard Ebright of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, urged the panel to consider moving oversight of select agent labs from CDC and USDA to another agency that does not fund or conduct such work itself as a way to avoid conflicts of interest.

The presidentially appointed oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is considering whether to revise a portion of the agency's statistical bible because it might be seen as out of step with the new administration's views on renewable energy research.

Her departure comes in the middle of a major overhaul of the agency's food safety oversight and as legislators prepare to propose key changes to its medical product review and approval process.

Her departure comes in the middle of a major overhaul of the agency's food safety oversight and as legislators

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

Another would strengthen the oversight of local School Attendance Review Boards as well as promote lines of communication and data sharing between educational, social and juvenile justice agencies.

They were always envisioned as transitory, and can have their charter revoked if authorizing agencies conduct proper oversight.

As is typical with any new law, after passage of the ESSA, the federal agency responsible for administration and oversight — in this case, the U.S. Department of Education — established regulations to make sure the intent of the law was properly applied.

Talk of a move to re-establish state fiscal oversight of the city's schools has circulated since the summer and comes as bond ratings agencies have dropped CPS» debt deeper into junk status in advance of district plans to add more than $ 850 million to its overall debt load.

Contrary to Burris» assertion that they shun accountability, charter school officials have called for better oversight instead of the hodgepodge system in place whereby 324 local, county and state agencies act as authorizers.

The Department's Chief FOIA Officer provides high - level oversight and support to the Department's FOIA programs, and recommends adjustments to agency practices, personnel, and funding as may be necessary to improve FOIA administration, including through this annual Chief FOIA Officer Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

As a leader in transportation - related oversight, DOT's OST provides useful information to other agencies responsible for transportation oversight activities.

Provide strategic direction and oversight to ESC on behalf of DOT as a Federal Shared Service Provider designated by OMB to provide financial systems and accounting services to other Federal agencies on a cost - reimbursement basis.

FMCSA developed the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners program as part of the agency's commitment to enhancing the medical oversight of interstate drivers, and preventing commercial vehicle - related crashes, injuries, and fatalities.

As Administrator, Batory is responsible for managing the agency's regulatory oversight of more than 800 railroads, including enforcement of safety laws and regulations.

prohibits any public transportation agency from providing funds to the State safety oversight agency or an entity designated by the eligible State as the State safety oversight agency under paragraph (4).

As for IG's reliability, the broker complies with all the strict regulatory requirements that have been imposed upon it by the various regulatory agencies that have oversight over IG's operations.

The bill largely reformed the Federal Government's oversight of the economy and created a slew of new agencies in the process, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to help prevent another Great Recession.