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Right now there really is no oversight of who is doing what with human embryonic stem cells. The hope is that our guidelines will help to create a fairly uniform set of standards from one institution to another.

Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.

The National Amusement Ride Safety Act does not single out this industry, ... Our purpose is to ensure that this industry is treated no differently than any other when it comes to basic consumer safety oversight of activity that places small children on large machines.

During the Clinton years, we were fighting that kangaroo court - they never said no. Here we are now wishing for the little oversight that the court had.

Depriving an entire branch of government of its ability to exercise meaningful oversight is a decidedly wrong course to take.

As chairman of the subcommittee responsible for Iraq's reconstruction, I have seen the positive and necessary oversight role a special inspector general plays in monitoring this spending.

As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.

As a whole, we feel like the oversight of the contract has been very strong.

The bottom line is that we don't know finally what will be in the reorganization but obviously we will have oversight over whatever comes up.

As I reviewed the number of documents about John Roberts record, it is imperative that there is intensive oversight during the hearings, ... The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment. We cannot afford to lose ground on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the affirmative action executive order in the Nixon White House, and the rights to fairness in the criminal justice system.

You name the issue. There would be a lot of oversight hearings. He will be a true lame duck.

This is an ordinary tool as used throughout the country but always in adherence to the Constitution and always -- and this is so important -- always with the oversight of a federal judge who has to determine that ... probable cause exists in the first place,

the White House remains willing to cooperate with the committee, as we have over the past eight months, and to provide information that is responsive to the committee's legitimate oversight and investigative concerns.

This GAO report ... confirms my long-held suspicions: more can be done and more should be done to protect American investors. We need to ensure that the SEC's oversight of the mutual fund industry is adequate to protect consumers' investments and prevent abusive practices from developing again in the future.

This GAO report . . . confirms my long-held suspicions: More can be done and more should be done to protect American investors. We need to ensure that the SEC's oversight of the mutual fund industry is adequate to protect consumers' investments and prevent abusive practices from developing again in the future.

This demonstrates the enormous failure of antitrust oversight of the phone industry.

This absence of basic oversight has allowed individual corruption to flourish system-wide.

This illustrates the principle that unchecked authority goes astray. In this case, it's a relatively trivial infraction. But to me the point is that we need more aggressive and penetrating oversight than we have.

They take on great risk and accordingly deserve the highest standard of regulatory oversight possible. This bill achieves that.

This potential fraud, now under active investigation by the state and other authorities, may indicate the need for stronger oversight and active regulation of the hedge fund industry.

This oversight board is not just a board made up of people who will rubber-stamp the decisions of the Transportation Trust Fund Authority. This oversight board will have the statutory authority to not only oversee the TTFA finances but to make sure our debt ceiling and our capital program are in line with what we said it would be.

There were bribes; there were kickbacks; there was lax oversight from the Secretariat; and some member states turned a blind eye toward this corruption.

There is one major big wrong with this thing. There is absolutely no oversight from the Legislature.

There's been a raft of these low-cost carriers in South America and Asia. The question is, what's the level of oversight of these carriers?

There's a natural hesitance on the part of the regulator to believe that its own regulations and its own oversight would be anything other than acceptable.

As we move forward with significant progress in our Phase III clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease and pre-clinical work in various cancers, I am confident that Voyager's expanded board of directors will provide the advice and oversight to sustain our company's success. It is an honor and a privilege to work with such a distinguished group.

According to the distributor, he believed it was just an oversight. But it's the kind of oversight that is really something that can't be tolerated.

A clear lesson in this tragedy is that one point person tends to be more effective than many point persons, ... We need to conduct oversight before the fact, not after the fact when it is too late to undo mistakes.

It's essential that we have a clear accountability and strong oversight for all the emergency support and recovery funds going to the Gulf States.

It's a broad piece of legislation that covers grants, loans, oversight of colleges and universities.

it relates to the issue of board oversight of financial forecasts and whether the board did its proper job in reviewing the forecasts and making the decision. And that's as specific as I can get.

It's a privilege to have a concealed weapons permit. Having no oversight is scary. We especially want to know when someone is packing heat.

It's frustrating that it's taken two (inspector general) audits, a GAO investigation and the threat of a congressional oversight hearing to get an agency to comply with its obligations to the taxpayers,

Congress must seek and find answers when confronted with a situation that represents a possible betrayal of the public trust especially at a time when the people of the Gulf Region need every resource available to recover, ... ...I intend to exert my oversight power to determine how such flagrant abuse could happen and to ensure that Small Business Administration loans truly go to those who need them.

Congress must assert its proper role in our government and through its oversight powers, seek the truth. The system of checks and balances must be restored. The administration's illegal actions fail the American people and our Constitution.

Congress must assert its proper role and seek the truth. A government that fails to honor its own laws is a government that fails its people. With the proper oversight and action, Congress can help restore the constitutional system of checks and balances.

Then she voted to gut the Treasurer's oversight bill.

That's absurd. Not only did the committee pursue an aggressive oversight agenda, but they got out of Washington, D.C., and saw firsthand on the ground the problems facing federal parks.

Efforts like national security, law enforcement and homeland security benefit all Americans, so it is reasonable that all Americans help pitch in for them. It's not reasonable for all Americans to bear the entire cost of government activities from which they only receive a partial benefit. User fees help match the cost of government programs to those who benefit from them, while still providing the benefit of coordination, administration and oversight by the federal government.

The board's concerns were with the frequency and quality of her consultation with the board that has oversight of the Red Cross.

The board has an opportunity to show that it is not in the pocket of the president and is truly concerned with the liberty and privacy of the American people. Given the ever-growing expansion of the government's law enforcement powers, effective oversight is absolutely essential. We hope that the board will provide real oversight, and not simply the illusion.

The bill gives oil companies a free ride with backdoor language that allows them to circumvent environmental laws, legal standards, federal agency oversight that every other business in America has to comply with. ... America wants a better energy plan than putting a sweetheart deal in the budget language,

Students who are given a stipend specifically for housing are still gaming the system, ... I would consider this to be a major failure in the oversight of the program.

The attorney general took an oath to uphold the Constitution and serve the American public - not to push the White House's agenda. In America, no one is above the law, not even the president. The attorney general has an obligation to investigate this gross violation of the law, and at the bare minimum, should be providing answers to Congress. Effective oversight cannot occur without the full facts.

Tangible is what the company does to appease customers, and psychological is how they do it. For example, we had a student who paid for flowers to be delivered on Mother's Day. By accident, the flowers weren't delivered. The florist profusely apologized for the oversight -- that was the psychological. Then, he recovered by delivering a different bouquet of flowers to the mother's house every day for a week after that -- that was the tangible.

It needs to be addressed. It was an oversight and is correctable. It's not about how proficient our students are, it's what students know in relation to the standards. The test scores are a single snapshot on a single day of testing.

It's a matter of public confidence and trust that safety oversight organizations work together.

It's critical that we conduct our oversight in a manner that does not interfere with the life-and-death work being done.

It's very tricky. People can't find businesses. Every interchange has the name of what it is except (this one). It was just an oversight as far as I can tell.

I wanted to make sure that the people in the affected areas get every bit of assistance they absolutely need, ... Writing them a blank check and not being able to have oversight does not achieve that.

They have to amend the way they do business, and we will have examiners to make them amend and adjust their practices, to put an end to lax oversight once and for all.

There was a man so very tall,That when you spoke you had to ballThrough both your hands, put like a cup,His head was such a long way up...He grew and grew - you could not seeWithout a telescope his knee;He grew till he was over-grown,And seen by oversight alone!

There was a man so very tall, That when you spoke you had to ball Through both your hands, put like a cup, His head was such a long way up... He grew and grew - you could not see Without a telescope his knee; He grew till he was over-grown, And seen by oversight alone!

Once the transition is made, it is important to realize TSA is still responsible for the oversight of security. The vendor screeners will still be operating under TSA standards.

Once again, it appears to me that the White House has dictated that the Republican-controlled Congress not conduct oversight of an important national security matter, ... They have made it clear that anyone who suggests that oversight is needed should be labeled as unpatriotic.

Not only does the proposal ... create new surveillance powers, but it actually reduces the level of privacy protection and oversight associated with that surveillance,

Small businesses, I can guarantee you, would be very upset if the Legislature chooses to ban a program that is legal, has been in effect for four years with full government oversight and full legislative explanation.

That's an issue we have asked ourselves in hindsight - to what degree did we need to have more oversight and be involved in the governance and decision making,

The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.

I intend to watch this unfolding story closely and to hold oversight hearings when appropriate.

inherent inability to provide knowledgeable oversight and support for technical and operational programs.

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.

Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

If the UN refuses to make meaningful changes to the council structure, the US should lead a group of like-minded democracies with a demonstrated commitment to the protection of human rights to create an effective and accountable human rights oversight body outside the UN system.

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

If you're off by $100 a month on what you really spend, that oversight then is $1,200 every year. Think about this. If you can invest $100 a month over 20 years, and assuming an after-tax return of 8 percent, it could amount to as much as $60,000.

Investors for whom this level of oversight is important already can select from among registered advisers, ... If SEC registration were perceived to be uniformly desirable, the market -- meaning investors -- would eventually lead all hedge-fund advisers to register.

I offered to permit additional members of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee to review these documents, in order to satisfy the committee's subpoena, ... I again offered to testify, to meet with members of the committee and to answer oversight questions.

In the past, it was fine with the board that the oversight committee not report to the district, but the new board may want more, ... I think it's something we want to address in the future.

In the absence of timely and accurate data, that makes effective oversight more difficult.

Clearly, we need to refine our oversight of repair stations -- specifically as they become more popular. The inspector general's concern is perhaps maybe those actions aren't as quick as they should be, but we are moving forward with due speed.

How can we expect the nation to believe us that we need these projects to save the coastal wetlands that are vital to ourselves and to the nation, when we ask for a blank check and no oversight over $200 billion packed with projects that have nothing to do with either floor protection of the city of New Orleans or restoring the coast?

Changes in our management ranks presented an opportunity to redefine our structure. Aggregating all our creative energies in one division; placing all sales and marketing in one area to sell our growing menu of services; consolidating oversight of all technology; and affirming the centralized management of all international businesses are powerful statements. I'm excited about the prospects of this realignment and the people leading these areas. Not only does this reaffirm ESPN as the leading sports media entity, it will strengthen our commitment to serving sports fans.

I don't think Congress is going to go for such big increases in troubled programs unless and until the Air Force can prove that it has got a handle on the problems with acquisition and oversight of contractors.

I am writing to inform you that I intend to conduct an oversight investigation into allegations that you either quashed or redirected two ongoing criminal investigations last year,

The truth is that there is stronger public oversight and control over the food we feed our pets than for the tests administered to our children. We simply cannot trust the testing industry to oversee itself.

a level of oversight I've never seen before, and I've been doing this 12 years.

The important thing is to get oversight in there fast, and make it highly visible.

You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy. We've gone far in one way, but not the other.

And so again I ask those responsible, with oversight of the liquor commission, to evaluate this and to enact the proper ethical standards so that this type of corruption never, ever happens again.

The City of San Antonio and Bexar County will have some oversight authority.

The Commission is an impressive and diverse group, with members steeped in finance, law, economics, and market regulation. With the support of the Chamber, we will have a real opportunity to outline beneficial changes to the oversight of our capital markets.

The commissioner emphasized to me that I inherited an organization that was inadequately structured and staffed, ... and that we must correct that to ensure the highest standards of team operations, including discipline, accountability, strong oversight and internal communications.

The discrepancy there is that alternative schools were previously exempted from the grading process. The district, in the year 2003-2004, exempted its alternative schools from the grading process. They failed to exempt the alternative schools that are charter schools. And it was just an oversight on the part of the district. All alternative schools in the district couldn't possibly have received an F because they didn't get graded in 2003-2004.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.