Sentences with phrase «oversight power by»

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And Republicans who support the legislation say it's necessary to guard against presidential interference by giving Congress more oversight power.

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.

In our view, shareholder value is enhanced by an independent Board Chair who can provide a balance of power between the CEO and the Board and support strong Board oversight.

Rattled by President Trump's decision to pardon the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis «Scooter» Libby, Rep. Adam Schiff wants Congress to pass legislation giving itself more oversight of the president's pardoning power.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Or, internal sabotage, by an anti-development (if not outright anti-people) National Assembly, wilfully abusing its powers of budgetary oversight?

Labour said giving police powers to access IP addresses should be accompanied by «appropriate oversight providing sufficient checks and balances».

Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D - Manhattan) named Diaz chair of the new committee this month, giving the outspoken 74 - year - old minister subpoena power and oversight of yellow and green taxis, Ubers and other car - service vehicles regulated by the Taxi & Limousine Commission.

My Government will continue with legislation to modernise the law governing the use and oversight of investigatory powers by law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies.

began the questioning of top military commanders by asking for a general sense of how taking oversight of adjudicating sexual assault cases would affect the power of military commanders.

The report praises Assembly Ken Zebrowski's «Rockland County Deficit Reduction Task Force» proposal, stating that «the task force would exist for a three - year period, and could extend its oversight by majority vote for two - year periods until the deficit bonds were paid off... The task force would have broad oversight and budget recommendation powers.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

Government observers and watchdog groups have called for oversight of the city and state university systems to be expanded under the state Comptroller, not the Inspector General, including certain contract oversight powers that were stripped by Cuomo and the Legislature in 2011.

A Cuomo plan that could add a costly level of oversight to the city's affordable housing financing has no «rational» policy basis and is simply a blatant power grab by the state, according to a scathing new NYC Council report.

Without clear independent oversight any such system runs the risk of being abused by whichever party is in power.

As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the General Fund of the State of New York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.

Comptroller Scott Stringer repeatedly asserted that a new executive order signed by the mayor stripped his office of its oversight authority when it comes to the higher wage and new workers covered in the order, handing that power over to the mayor's Department of Consumer Affairs.

In wake of NYCHA lead scandal, Senate passes IDC sponsored bills to create state Independent Monitor of NYCHA & to empower New York City Council with oversight power Legislation is part of a comprehensive package announced by the Independent Democratic -LSB-...]

He subsequently blamed much of the scandal on poor controls over the procurement process used by the nonprofits, and has proposed stepped - up oversight such as the creation of a «chief procurement officer» within the Executive Chamber — though that concept has been criticized by some as duplicative of the powers of the state Comptroller's office, only less independent.

«How does any entity, private of not, have the unchecked access to and negotiating power over, any taxable property without any type of oversight by any governing body of individuals chosen by the electorate?»

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Ramapo — In an attempt to seek outside help from state lawmakers, activists with the group The Power of Ten travelled to Albany to submit a petition requesting an oversight monitor to identify and resolve problems in the East Ramapo Central School District.

He said the oversight powers that town Republicans have asked for are handled in Nassau by the investigations commissioner.

Legislative leaders say a bill by the State Comptroller to reinstate oversight powers over economic development contracts, is moving forward.

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.

A new essay by the oversight body of the National Science Foundation explains what federal research officials must do if the United States hopes to remain the world's leading scientific power.

The meeting was an opportunity for CENG executives to highlight the reduced radiation exposures at their plants, the company's above - average record in keeping its plants online, and its standing at the high end of the performance ratings by the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, an industry oversight organization.

The advantage of the decentralized structure of the multidivisional type of organization is that it can effectively mitigate that staff growth by giving managers who know the needs of their divisions the power to make decisions, thereby reducing the necessity for central - office oversight.

If the department is lenient in its evaluation of these plans, it would amount to a de facto rollback in federal oversight because the Department of Education would be choosing not to exercise its powers to the full extent permitted by law.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.

As the recommendations made by these review committees strongly influence school board decisions about charter school approval, this change concentrates charter school decision - making power in the superintendent's office, without increasing transparency, accountability or oversight by the school board.

Power companies would be allowed to exercise their own judgment (subject to the normal regulatory oversight by individual states) as to whether electricity from natural gas would be more cost - effective than coal or wind or solar.

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..

Getting back to the IPCC, they are organization with no oversight made up people that answer to no one and who stand to gain money and power by their very actions.

The Commission sets out safeguards for any future legislation, including ensuring the person has been fully informed of all other treatment and care options, that there is safe storage and transportation of lethal medication, and that there is monitoring and regulatory oversight by a national monitoring commission with investigatory powers.

Recently he's been pushing to have his office granted oversight powers over the embattled air ambulance service ORNGE, and he has begun to address allegations of excessive use of force by correctional officers.

It will provide a new framework to govern the use and oversight of investigatory powers by law enforcement and the security and intelligence agencies.

fm.: From Wikipedia: in government, typically a regulation specifically means a piece of the delegated legislation drafted by subject matter experts to enforce a statutory instrument (primary legislation) in business, industry self - regulation occurs through self - regulatory organizations and trade associations which allow industries to set rules with less government involvement The Act that authorizes the Agency would thus be the Legislative creation of Administrative Law (they give authority to enact the regulations as they see fit AND can further clarify through oversight power.)

The Divisional Court's decision serves as a reminder that SROs derive their jurisdiction by virtue of being recognized by provincial securities commissions and that the power of SROs and their members is always subject to the oversight of those commissions.

The key constitutional issue in this regard was therefore always going to concern the degree of oversight and control exercisable by Parliament over the exercise of these powers.