Word: oversight
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...have the right, even the responsibility to criticize a plan that they see as flawed. Yet their mocking words have perverted the meaning of constructive criticism. Romney’s plan is very different from Clinton’s. His plan focuses on providing healthcare through the state without oversight from the federal government and without raising taxes. Republicans have nevertheless made healthcare a political issue by referring to it as “hillarycare?...
...Cheney's resistance to oversight by anyone - congressional or executive - isn't new. It dates to the mid-1970s, when a Democratic Congress, emboldened by the excesses of Watergate, reined in the executive branch in a variety of ways: imposing a new budget regimen on the Presidency, passing a war powers law that tied its hands overseas and holding months of oversight hearings of agencies like the FBI and CIA, which had run amok in the Nixon...
...action. He has studiously avoided putting anything radioactive on the agenda, including gun control, abortion and same-sex marriage. One of his subcommittees has issued subpoenas, but those are on the firings of the U.S. Attorneys by Bush's Justice Department and that is exactly the kind of congressional oversight that people voted for in the past election...
...both John Dingell, chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Bart Stupak, chairman of the panel's oversight subcommittee, have indicated that they intend to raise pointed questions about the episode directly with Secretary Bodman. Dingell told TIME: "Despite multiple recent appearances before our Committee, many officials with specific knowledge of this security breach never informed us, and apparently presumed that taxpayers should be left in the dark...
...Second, the Dean’s Discretionary Fund for Undergraduate Life must be better publicized, and the dean of the College should be solely responsible for allocating money given to it, without FAS oversight. Given the large role played by FAS in the budgetary process, it remains questionable how much latitude the College has to set its own priorities and fund its own programs...