Word: oversights
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...both sides." Afterward, I asked Zinner about Shays' response. "I really respect him, I've always voted for him, and he had a point," Zinner said. Does that mean you'll vote for him this time? "No way," he said. "If we don't get some meaningful congressional oversight of the Bush Administration, this country may be gone forever...
...infrequent today that travelers rarely even think about them. That is the result of decades of aviation safety improvements and an accident investigation culture that looks for problems then fixes them. The recent record in the U.S. has been especially noteworthy. Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversight office, led by Associate Administrator Nicholas Sabatini, have made history in the past three years: the .017 accident rate per 100,000 takeoffs has made the U.S. the safest system ever...
...here is an attempt to bring the body of information that is available into one place to present to the American people. Has anybody done a better job of getting all this information together and trying to present this?" Ware added that it's an important part of congressional oversight "to identify shortcomings and keep pressure on to fix them." And indeed, the report did take intelligence agenices to task, declaring that "Intelligence community managers and analysts must provide their best analytic judgments about Iranian W.M.D. programs and not shy away from provocative conclusions or bury disagreements in consensus assessments...
...immediately met by a series of legal challenges from religious and taxpayer groups opposed to stem-cell research. The most serious threat is the claim that the ballot measure violates the state's constitution because the institute and its oversight committee are not under exclusive state control. At trial, the judge disagreed, declaring the institute "firmly under the management and control of the state." That decision is now on appeal...
...says. But it will be hard to ignore. If Republicans retain control of the Senate after November's midterm elections, McCain is due to become chairman of the Armed Services Committee in January, a position he has long aimed for. There he would have day-to-day responsibility for oversight...