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Oversight

Separation of powers (checks and balances) - the concept of separate branches of government or agencies exercising authority over one another


Al Hutchinson

A graduate of Carleton University and Queen's University, Belfast, Hutchinson served in the Office of the Oversight Commissioner, Tom Constantine, who was charged with overseeing the Patten Reforms of the RUC, from 2001 until Constantine's retirement.

American Society of Human Genetics

On January 2, 2008, the American Society of Human Genetics released a statement on direct-to-consumer sales of genetic tests, calling for improved standards and for oversight by the Federal Trade Commission to insure the accuracy and validity of genetic testing and sales claims.

Anglican Diocese of Iran

When Bishop Iraj Mottahedeh retired in 2004, the Central Synod of the Middle East invited Bishop Azad Marshall, Bishop of the Persian Gulf and Associate Bishop of the Church in the Middle East, to provide episcopal oversight to the Diocese of Iran as Bishop.

Big Dig ceiling collapse

On July 13, 2006, the leaders of the state legislature, Senate President Robert Travaglini and House Speaker Sal Dimasi, called upon Turnpike Authority chairman Matthew J. Amorello, who provided oversight of the project, to consider stepping down from his position and accepting a diminished role.

Bishop of Ebbsfleet

The position was created in 1994 and licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a "flying bishop" to provide episcopal oversight for parishes throughout the province which do not accept the sacramental ministry of bishops who have participated in the ordination of women.

Bishop of Willesden

The new bishop was given oversight of four rural deaneries: Hampstead, Hornsey, St Pancras and Willesden, previously the responsibility of the Bishop of Islington.

Citizen oversight

Citizen oversight is the act of an assembly of citizens that come together to review government activities that may be deemed misconduct or to consider possible government solutions.

Clark H. Woodward

As commander of the New York Navy Yard from October 1, 1937 to March 1, 1941, Admiral Woodward was not only charged with the construction of warships, but he also had oversight of the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, located on the eastern side of Wallabout Bay; the Material and Chemical Laboratories at the Navy Yard; and numerous supply depots around the borough of Brooklyn.

Congressional oversight

The impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in 1998 in the House and in 1999 in the Senate also generated considerable oversight.

Critical thinking

Media ridicule led to a response from RPT Communications Director Chris Elam that the inclusion of the term "critical thinking skills" was an oversight which cannot be corrected until 2014, when the next state convention will occur.

Cynthia Harriss

In this role, Harriss had oversight of Gap Inc.'s three outlet chains: Banana Republic Factory Stores, Gap Outlet and Old Navy Outlet.

Dennis M. Bushnell

As Chief Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, he is responsible for technical oversight and advanced program formulation.

Director of Education

In Ontario, the Director of Education is an individual who has executive oversight and administration rights, usually within an educational entity or organization representing 72 District School Boards in Ontario of the anglophone and francophone publicly funded secular and separate school boards.

Donald H. Magnuson

He also served on the Public Works Committee with oversight over the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and the Atomic Energy Commission.

Dorothy Korber

After leaving the Bee, Korber became principal consultant to the California State Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes.

FDA Food Safety Modernization Act

Senators Jon Tester and Kay Hagan sponsored two amendments that removed vital local food growers and processors from federal oversight, leaving them –as they currently are – within the existing regulatory framework of state and local health and sanitation laws and rules.

Gary Gensler

Yet in late November, 2011, Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas), head of the House Financial Services oversight subcommittee investigating MF Gloabal's collapse, noted that Corzine personally lobbied Gensler and his staff that year in opposition to a possible CFTC rule, that would have affected MF Global.

Gerry Parsky

Chairman Parsky oversaw the Regents’ governance of the University, including oversight and negotiations on behalf of the U.S. nuclear labs at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, student admissions, expansion of the U.C. Merced campus, as well as budget and fiscal issues, including pension plans for the faculty and staff.

Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

From 1721, during Peter the Great's reign, until August 1917 (existed only nominally prior to (14) February 1, 1918) the Holy Governing Synod was the supreme body of the church, and state administrative authority in the Russian Empire, replacing a patriarch in some general church functions and external relations, as well as service and oversight to the cathedrals of the bishops of the local church.

Igor Yusufov

The Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin recommended to Igor Yusufov his return to Government service at the post of Deputy Minister of Industry with oversight of Gold and diamond recovery.

Intendant

(Two new intendancies with oversight only over the treasury were established in 1786 in Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba.)

Inventoried roadless area

The most recent review of inventoried roadless areas began in 1998 under the oversight of Michael Dombeck, then head of the US Forest Service.

Iván Guzmán de Rojas

In 1985, under the oversight of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, João Clemente Baena Soares, Guzmán presented the first prototype of the Atamiri System in Washington, DC.

James Benoit

Previously, he has served on the board of directors of the Piney Orchard Community Association, and has been a member of the Odenton Town Center Oversight Committee.

Jo-Ellen Darcy

During her seven years on the EPW Committee staff, she worked on the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the committee's oversight of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Everglades restoration.

Karin Dubsky

She withdrew from the Seanad Election of 2011 due to an oversight in official registration of her Irish citizenship over forty years previously, which could not be rectified in time for the beginning of the election.

Lambert's Point

The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (N&P) was built under the oversight of William Mahone, young civil engineer from Southampton County, Virginia who had been educated in the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute (VMI).

London Government Act 1899

Concern was voiced in the Commons by Thomas Lough and Richard Haldane (MP for Haddingtonshire) about the fact that the boundaries of the boroughs not listed in the Bill were to be fixed by boundary commissioners without parliamentary oversight.

Michael Decker

Michael H. Decker, current Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight

Middlesex County Sheriff's Office

The agency's primary responsibility is oversight of the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica, Massachusetts and the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ministerial decree

However, presumably due to an oversight in the drafting process oversight, the Act did not provide for such an order to be made by statutory instrument as defined by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946.

National Public Safety Commission

The National Public Safety Commission is the policy making and oversight body of the national police forces in Japan and South Korea.

Richard Risby

12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Observant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (St.John's College, Cambridge), parson of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex and Richard Master M.A. (King's College, Oxon)rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some oversight Master's name is included and Risby's omitted in the catalogue of praetermissi.

Robert E. Trono

Mr. Trono advised the Deputy Attorney General on a wide variety of matters and oversight responsibility over several agencies including the Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

School of the Arts, Singapore

From 1 November 2012, oversight of SOTA was taken over by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY), which is helmed by Lawrence Wong, Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information.

Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq

As these facts were emerging in June, 2003, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, announced that the Committee, as part of its regular oversight responsibility, would conduct a "thorough and bipartisan review" of Iraqi WMD and ties to terrorist groups.

Terry Everett

As chair of the Veterans' Affairs subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Everett garnered national attention in the fall of 1997 for revealing that former Ambassador M. Larry Lawrence had improperly secured a burial waiver at Arlington National Cemetery.

Tirso del Junco, Jr.

In 1997 he was appointed Commissioner to the California State Athletic Commission and was a member if the Oversight Committee of the Department of Health Service for California.

U.S. Route 66 in California

This oversight has since been corrected; the diner remains open, complete with memorabilia of the roadside Texaco which is no longer in operation at the site.

United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services

The current head of the OIOS, Under-Secretary-General Carman Lapointe-Young of Canada, was appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services for a five-year term starting on 14 September 2010, succeeding Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden.

United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition

The subcommittee is responsible for oversight, review, analysis, and special investigations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture along with nutrition and consumer programs such as the federal food stamp program, which provides assistance to needy families and the Food Pyramid.

United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the United States House of Representatives.

United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight

The House Way and Means Subcommittee on Oversight is one of the six subcommittees within the House Ways and Means Committee

United States Joint Intelligence Community Council

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 established the Joint Intelligence Community Council as an Executive oversight body to the Intelligence Community.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues

This includes the general oversight responsibility for the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the U.S. Foreign Service, and public diplomacy and United States participation in the United Nations, its affiliated organizations, and other international organizations not under the jurisdiction of other subcommittees.

University of Oregon media

The paper became independent in the 1970s after editor Paul Brainerd realized the potential conflict of interest between acting as a watchdog while simultaneously receiving direct funding and oversight from the university.

Vancouver Park Board

In June 2009, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vancouver city councilor Raymond Louie, both of whom are members of the Vision Vancouver party, were accused by Vancouver city councilor Suzanne Anton, a member of the opposition party, of attempting to destroy the independence of the park board by centralizing budget oversight.

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

In October 2009, Arnold Gundersen, a member of a special oversight panel convened by the Vermont General Assembly, confirmed that radioactive contamination had been detected in underground pipes.


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