If oversight was inadequate to enforce these laws, oversight has to be reformed.
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If the Oversight Committee approves a contempt resolution, the measure could then go to the House floor for a full vote.
The latest comes from Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann who told Bloomberg that private entities like hedge funds pose a systemic risk to the economy if lax oversight persists.
According to Kathryn Helvenston-Wettengel, who is suing Blackwater for contributing to the death of her son, private companies reap immense profits from their contracts but lack any sort of oversight if they don't provide their employees with adequate protection.
If the advisory panel votes for more oversight -- and if the FDA follows the panel's advice, as it usually does -- some experts fear that access to the treatment will be curtailed.
And there seems to be very little--if any--oversight of contractors working in U.S. war zones, or how the network of subcontractors is structured.
President Obama has said that those plush areas would get developed but with stricter oversight than if his challenger would have been elected.
The consultation is also examining whether the technology exists to enable reliable storage of data, and if proposals for parliamentary oversight are adequate.
If elected officials with oversight authority are looking for activity at the Environmental Protection Agency which reduces economic opportunity, environmental justice should be on their list.
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Congress is threatening to pass a bill creating a new Federal Accounting Oversight Board if FASB does not provide a change in fair value application by early April.
Some argue that forcing Microsoft to modify its behaviour would require ongoing oversight, and if the company was seen as breaking the terms of the remedy, the case would return to court.
Or if the problem is regulatory oversight, how strong is a country where parts of a town are destroyed by the explosion of a fertilizer plant that had not had an inspection in more than two decades?
The financial industry apparently fears that it might actually be subjected to rigorous oversight and enforcement, if Senator Warren gets her way.
Changes in board practices and behavior will be essential if directors are to provide independent oversight of executives--real-time performance information unfiltered by management, new meeting formats that foster more open discussion, and the freedom to interact, unfettered by management, with the leaders of business units.
According to Volcker, if the Fed were relieved of its oversight of smaller banks, its "regional roots would be weaker and a useful source of information lost"--a view also shared by Bernanke.
But if the GP practice is hidebound by oversight, and the competition body Monitor, which was originally designed to drive inefficient hospitals bust can no longer do so, it is hard to see the central argument of the reforms operating.
And if an emergency situation develops during which various oversight procedures are overlooked, the risk is even greater, it added.
Well, if you think Liberia could use some governmental oversight, wait until you see what goes on in the Central African Republic.
PCAOB, I laid out changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley law that could be considered if the Court declared the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board unconstitutional.
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Second, that everybody cheats if they have the right incentives and the wrong oversight, so managers must ensure that punishment is sure and swift.
As such they exercise closer oversight of the company than they might if it were either widely held or simply run by family members for their own benefit.
Audit Committee members are required to proactively probe management, internal auditors and external auditors to gain insight and to make oversight decisions that will hold up, if necessary, in court.
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The city would give incentives to developers to clean up the kind of sites that fell in the light to mid-range of the pollution spectrum and thus languished in state and federal clean-up programs for their lack of severity: if developers complied with environmental guidelines and submitted to oversight, they would be spared the specter of future liability.
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This would allow firms to opt out of a wide set of labor laws if they have independent worker committees that approve and have oversight of workplace regulations.
It is part of the law that was passed and signed into law by the President, and if they want to introduce changes to the structure or oversight of the CFPB through legislation they should do that.
Blinded by macro statistics that cover irrelevant government measures such as the mythical "trade deficit, " Bernanke is calling for government oversight of alleged "imbalances" that, if implemented, would lower our standard of living and force us to pursue labor out of necessity rather than the pursuit of work at which we excel.
FORBES: The Fed chairman has no idea what he's talking about.
If confirmed, Mr. Lew will chair the Financial Stability Oversight Council, responsible for identifying and addressing "systemic risks" to the financial system.
All of this suggests that although there is a strong case for a more system-wide approach to oversight, it could do more harm than good if poorly crafted.
But last fall, the Library of Congress, which has oversight of certain copyright matters, banned the practice if a carrier doesn't give permission, saying cellphones should no longer be exempted from a section of copyright law.
It also had some oversight authority over banks and would be put in charge if and when a a bank failed.
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