Word: watchdogging
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...funds. Speaking at a news conference in Chicago, Dirksen suggested that the Senate Committee on Labor, Education, and Welfare take up the matter and declared that he was "going to get to the bottom of this." Rep. Roman C. Tucinski (D-Ill.) asked the General Accounting Office -- the watchdog over distribution of federal funds -- to investigate the legality of withholding funds under the Civil Rights...
...Senate takes with dedicated seriousness its traditional role of watchdog on foreign policy, stemming from its constitutional powers of advice and consent on treaties and the appointment of ambassadors. Senate sentiment about present U.S. policy toward Viet Nam therefore becomes of vital concern. How do the members of the Senate feel about Viet Nam? Last week TIME'S congressional correspondents interviewed almost a score of the Senate's members-a sampling ranging across regional, party and ideological lines. Among those who were not interviewed were Senators whose views have long been on the record-such as Oregon Democrat...
...year ago the Senate Rules Committee's six-man Democratic majority slapped a few coats of whitewash over the Bobby Baker investigation with a final report that was supposed to end the case once and for all. But Delaware Republican John J. Williams, the tenacious Senate watchdog, pointed out a few splotches, and the Democrats were forced to try again. Last week they issued a second "final report" that is as white...
...retires, Pete Akers leaves a legacy of responsible investigative reporting that is still a yardstick in Chicago. "A newspaper has to be a watchdog," said he last week. "If the newspaper doesn't do it, who's going to? God! What would go on in a city like Chicago if the newspapers didn...
Nearly two years ago, Watchdog Williams rose on the Senate floor to charge that Bobby Baker, then the secretary for the Senate's Democratic Majority, was guilty of all sorts of shenanigans. The Rules Committee was assigned to investigate. Bobby Baker resigned and, for the most part, has since been seen only when taking the Fifth Amendment...