Word: oversight
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...Tuesday the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, one of the most powerful investigative bodies in Congress, is to hear testimony from former Senator George Mitchell, the author of the report that linked some 90 players to the possible possession or use of performance-enhancing drugs. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union chief Donald Fehr will join Mitchell at the hearing, in which Congress will pressure the executives to implement the report's recommendations, which include a truly independent drug testing program and more frequent year-round, unannounced tests (Selig has already acted on a few of them...
...application of its delegated powers. And when a law enforcement agency, even a private one, accepts public police privileges, common sense dictates that it must waive some measure of its legal autonomy. To argue otherwise, as the University has, is to subvert the importance of public oversight of government authority.Some University administrators worry that campus police records contain sensitive student information that, if distributed to members of the campus press, might breach these students’ privacy. Certainly, we recognize that HUPD performs many sensitive tasks—sometimes involving students who have not committed crimes—that...
...Americans' communications. But no court orders are required for surveillance of foreigners reasonably believed to be outside the country. The bill simply will not make our intelligence agencies get thousands of warrants for foreign terrorists. The restore Act's blend of Executive Branch flexibility, court approval and congressional oversight is calibrated to ensure that the fight against terrorism is conducted in an efficient and constitutional manner. We would hope that Klein, having studied the restore Act further, is no longer so confused as to continue to characterize our system of constitutional checks and balances as "well beyond stupid." John Conyers...
...consul Raymond Poeteray and his wife, Meta, adopted then-four-months-old Jade in South Korea. The couple, who also have two biological children, brought Jade with them to Indonesia and then to Hong Kong in 2004, although Poeteray never applied for Dutch nationality for the child - a curious oversight, given that he worked in a consulate. Then, last year, the Poeterays put Jade in the care of Hong Kong's Social Welfare Department, saying they could no longer care for her because of the girl's emotional remoteness...
Baek said that members decided to form an independent organization both because Harvard doesn’t officially recognize chapters of national organizations on campus, and to remove the need for oversight from a national bureaucracy...