Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things, one of which is that if there is a chance for incremental change, then that chance must be taken. The suggestion that a visiting committee be formed to check out Harvard community relations is that type of unsatisfying yet necessary change. Appointing a visiting committee to be a watchdog may show that Harvard needs a few new officers, more experienced and willing to deal with neighbors. They hope that the new people would even consider presenting their community views to Harvard, rather than always acting as a bargaining agent against local interests. This willingness to compromise comes in part...
...Secret. Colby argued against some suggested reforms of CIA operations. He opposed restricting the agency's clandestine activities to those first approved by a congressional watchdog committee because it would "interrupt the constitutional process of the Executive executing and the Legislative legislating. If you put the Congressmen in the chain of operations, I think you have a very complicated problem of who is really responsible." As for the proposal that Congress set specific guidelines for CIA activities, Colby said: "It would be very hard to set any that wouldn't come back and bite us some day." Instead...
Some Government agencies, he argues, give perverse incentives to export scarce goods like wheat and cotton, and to export credit, which allows rich countries to buy U.S. goods at less than market prices. Last year Reuss suggested the creation of a congressional price-supply ombudsman to act as watchdog over rising prices. Finally, he would finance a tax reduction for low-to middle-income Americans by, among other things, closing loopholes such as untaxed capital gains at death, hobby-farm deductions, and tax-exempt interest on bonds...
...those wondering whether post-Watergate politics have become notably cleaner, a lamentable answer emerged last week: not much. The Washington-based Fair Campaign Practices Committee, a nonpartisan election-watchdog group formed in 1954, has received 49 complaints about the 1974 campaign thus far. Said the committee's executive director, Samuel J. Archibald: "There were so many Democratic challengers tasting victory this year, and so many Republican incumbents tasting defeat - both were tempted to use the knee in the groin...
These charges against the FPC -characterized by Democratic Congressman John Moss of California as "one of the most powerful indictments of a federal regulatory agency within memory"-were contained in a study released last week by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. GAO investigators concentrated their fire on the manner in which the FPC acted under a regulation in effect since 1970. It is designed to increase supplies by permitting producers to sell gas at higher than regulated rates for 60 days. Allowing firms to go on selling high-priced gas beyond the 60-day period would require...