Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCarthy introduced a resolution asking for a "select committee" to probe CIA. McCarthy's proposal drew support from Nelson and William Fulbright, but at week's end congressional leaders turned thumbs down on a probe, arguing that there was enough surveillance of CIA by Administration watchdogs and oversight committees in both houses...
...Urban Oversight. Despite the mounting problems of city congregations, the author adds, seminaries are in many ways still helping students prepare "for a ministry to whatever is left of small town society." Although today's sophisticated laymen expect something more from their pastors than dogmatic, take-it-or-leave-it preaching, Feilding says that "the teaching method honored in the school was the lecture, so the graduate not unnaturally sets out upon his ministry lecturing people...
...Oversight Function. The changed temper goes well beyond mere numbers and partisan disagreements over specific issues. The wide extent of the new mood was illustrated last week by statements from two high-ranking Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
...current mood of Congress so well, his remarks were greeted as a bellwether. "It occurs to me," said Mansfield in a letter to 17 committee chairmen, "that the next Congress will see the convergence of a unique opportunity with a great need for a concentrated Senate exercise of the oversight function. I would hope to see the beginning of a major re-examination of what we have done in legislation during the past few years. Considering the vast scope of this work and the unprecedented nature of much of it, it is to be expected that there exist a number...
...decision-making process," it was only reasonable that the Foreign Relations Committee should be interested in it. A broadened-and by implication more alert-watchdog group, he claimed, would be but a "small step in the Senate's formal recognition of its duty to exercise a more comprehensive oversight of U.S. intelligence activities...