Word: oversight
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...outline Paulson delivered over a week ago, the Hill added provisions to help American homeowners avoid foreclosure by reducing principals or interest rates and giving people more time to pay back their mortgage. Congress also got a guarantee that taxpayers will get their $700 billion back, and ensured Congressional oversight and transparency of Paulson's transactions. Politically, Congress covered itself somewhat by mandating a limit on executive pay for firms that tap the government's $700 billion...
...will remain the same as they are at present. The promotion is largely a recognition of his commitment to the College and the size of his workload, Hammonds said. Ellison’s purview remains planning for and managing student emergency issues, including 24-hour crisis response and the oversight and direction of University emergency resources. He will stay in his post as secretary of the Ad Board—the College’s disciplinary body—overseeing the Board’s work and managing its practices. The former resident dean of Lowell House is also...
...what caused the breakdown of a $700 billion rescue package that at one point seemed to have been amended to everyone's liking - with limits on executive compensation, more protections for taxpayers and homeowners, and additional oversight of the buying and selling of Wall Street's toxic mortgage-backed securities? In the simplest terms, it was House Minority Leader John Boehner's surprising declaration at the White House meeting that his caucus does not support the deal and that alternatives should be considered. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demanded that Boehner get at least half of his caucus...
Paulson, Henry M., Jr. •proposal that Congress give him $700 billion to use however he wants with absolutely no oversight offered...
...this what they mean by putting an end to partisan bickering? Reaching across the aisle to share focus groups? The lifeblood of the world's largest economy was clotting, but the men who would be President answered with shared simplifications: muttered prayers to the god of oversight, an idle hope that taxpayers might awaken one day to a windfall, and the timeless amusement of humble millionaires bashing arrogant millionaires on behalf of folks who may never breathe debt-free...