Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. Levi announced that an Office of Professional Responsibility was being set up within the Justice Department to watchdog all of the agency's employees, including those of the FBI. The witnesses and the Senators agreed that Congress should go a step farther and set up its own committee to oversee the FBI. Ruckelshaus urged that such a committee "be privy to all information the FBI has relating to any specific investigation [and] operate as openly as possible." The committee's job would be to see that any new law was honored; demand the names of groups...
...areas in The Bronx and Brooklyn are next to slums, they are potentially desirable because they are conveniently located. The city could clear them and erect row houses to be sold to middle-class buyers. Says I.D. Robbins, a builder and former president of the City Club, a civic watchdog group: "There is a tremendous capital investment left over from the time these neighborhoods thrived. All that is missing is people...
...determined chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ray Garrett Jr. pushed through reforms long opposed by Wall Street. He also moved the watchdog agency into such new activities as demanding disclosure of bribes paid to Government officials by U.S. corporations. When Garrett leaves to rejoin his Chicago law firm, he will be succeeded by a corporate lawyer who may ruffle almost as many feathers. Last week President Ford nominated as the SEC's new chief Roderick M. Hills, 44, a presidential assistant and head of a White House task force looking into ways to reform federal regulatory agencies...
Finally, postal authorities also will study ways to reduce the number of small post offices by combining districts where feasible. Only recently, the General Services Administration, Congress's financial watchdog, reported that up to 12,000 of the nation's 31,000 post offices could be eliminated at a saving of $100 million a year, with practically no loss in efficiency. Yet considering the demands made upon the nation's Postal Service, it may well be unrealistic to expect that even with improved efficiency it can ever be truly selfsupporting...
...Sept. 8, to give the school committee more time to act. Last week, with busing procedures still in chaos, the judge summoned committee members to his courtroom and sat them down with representatives of the Citywide Coordinating Council, a citizens' panel set up by Garrity as a watchdog over Phase Two. "The best way I know to frustrate the plan is delay, delay, delay, so that a shambles exists on opening day," Garrity lectured. "That's not going to happen...