Word: oversight
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...TARP oversight committee appointed by Congress has already signaled some hostility about how the program has been managed which will not help Allison do his job. Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel, has expressed grave concern about whether banks which received government money are setting exorbitant fees and interest rates for their customers. There is also a concern that the new program to buy toxic assets from banks is not set up properly to get fair value for those assets...
...While oversight and careful attention to the necessity of weapons is laudable, these cuts are far too deep and have the potential to significantly set back the U.S. military and defense industry inasmuch as they mean that we will be relying on our current weapons for the foreseeable future...
Mohamed's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, says that to evaluate his client's claims - which could expand the investigation to include similar allegations by fellow Gitmo alumni - police will need access to records and personnel from the British intelligence community as well as from ministries with oversight of the security services and perhaps even to the pinnacles of decision-making in Westminster - and Washington. "It would be very surprising if the decision [on Mohamed] was not taken at a high level. The question is how high," says Stafford Smith, who is also the director of the legal charity Reprieve. During...
...members of Congress who are overseeing the bailout funds question what spin doctors have to do with Liddy's stated mission. Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Democrat on the House Oversight Committee that has investigated AIG, called the firm's p.r. payroll "a prime example of AIG misusing funds. Mr. Liddy should know, however, that all of the p.r. firms in the world will not distract us from getting to the bottom of what is really going on at AIG and how the company is spending taxpayer dollars...
...shake my head at Newt Gingrich's article [March 23]. In President Barack Obama's two months in office, Gingrich says, he "has so far failed to turn around the economic decline." It took the Republicans eight years to get us into this mess with their nonexistent oversight of financial companies and their allowing the deficit to balloon to $10 trillion. In the end, all Gingrich can offer as an answer is Contract with America 2.0--which consists mostly of tax cuts. It's the old trickle-down economics with a fresh paint job. I'd much rather have...