The European version calls for an end to auditors' self-regulation, requiring individual countries to set up regulators similar to America's newish Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
The extensive publicity given to the price-fixing charges, and the closer regulatory oversight that these charges prompted, also helped reduce spreads to levels similar to those on the New York Stock Exchange.
Issa, the House Oversight Committee chairman, said Tuesday that his committee has heard allegations of similar misconduct by Secret Service agents dating back years.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said Tuesday that his committee has heard allegations of similar misconduct by Secret Service agents dating back years.
The Government Reform and Oversight Committee's report, released in the autumn of 1996, reached similar conclusions, though it blasted the Clinton White House for its "cavalier approach" to security.