Word: oversight
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...latest edition of the Institute of Politics’ (IOP) twice-annual youth voter survey revealed that campaign managers across the country are not doing enough to target the youth vote—and are paying for their oversight with lost elections. The survey, which polled campaign managers in some of the most competitive races across the country, found that they generally do not consider youth voter outreach to be a high priority—and that two-thirds did not even know what percentage of the electorate was accounted for by voters ages 18 to 24. The results were...
...bisexual military personnel. “Wasting taxpayer dollars by discharging competent service members under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ doesn’t make sense,” Meehan, chairman of the House Armed Services Sub-Committee on Oversight and Investigations, said at a Washington, D. C., press conference yesterday. “It is long past time that we act to repeal it,” he added. Meehan’s bill, the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, was first introduced in 2005 and is supported by more...
...thousands of investors who swap unlisted shares of partially privatized Vietnamese companies. Participants call this the over-the-counter (OTC) market, a reference to exchanges abroad that provide an arena for trading small stocks. But unlike OTC bourses elsewhere, Vietnam's market has no licensed brokers, virtually no regulatory oversight, and trades often culminate with the exchange of cash for paper shares at a local tea shop. Think of it as an amorphous eBay for speculators, an ad hoc gray market that sprouted spontaneously from the pent-up desire among the Vietnamese to cash in on the country's economic...
...talked to this Administration many times in private, but I have an obligation that's far higher than to the President. That's part of our job: oversight. After four years of disaster in Iraq, there are some in the party who think we should still tiptoe around this. That's irresponsible...
...third way. By allotting the Episcopal leadership less than a year to back off of gay unions (or face taking a second-class status within the global group), the Communion has made it clear that it values its unity more than American participation (and funding). And in establishing "alternative oversight" by bishops more to the liking of U.S. conservatives - under a complicated system that still gives Episcopalian Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori some say in their regulation - the Communion has engaged in unusual interference with the polity of a member church. But it has also hinted that it would prefer...