He added that self-budgeting, "gives them a pass from oversight.
At a daily news briefing on Thursday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the project had been debated by Congress and passed oversight controls.
For years, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHAA) has granted many companies a pass on government oversight with the Voluntary Protection Program (VPP).
One of the most interesting was from Ben Heineman Jr., the former general counsel for General Electric, who, in an article in Harvard Business Review, said the commission had given the BP board of directors a pass on its inadequate oversight.
Even the Republican Congress, which often gave President Bush a free pass on oversight, never rushed to codify his illicit surveillance practices into law.
Corker, for one, pointed to Cotton's move as a turning point in what had been a bipartisan effort to pass an Iran oversight bill that wouldn't ultimately die on the president's desk.
(As we've learned from the Snowden N.S.A. scandals, both parties should support passing some oversight laws).
They result from endless hours of archival work and editorial scrutiny, and the fact that Mr. McGrath did not even mention Mr. Miller, a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and a distinguished author in his own right, in passing is a significant oversight.
While Russian involvement in the construction of a Finnish nuclear power plant passed Euratom oversight procedures without problems, the case of Hungry clearly signals that the Russian comprehensive package plays into European fears about energy security.
With just a week to go before New York City's not-very-set-in-stone deadline for passing its budget, a state oversight board warned yesterday that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's current plan to balance the budget "appears to be in jeopardy".
"We're talking about a year and a half, which is not a long time period to pass what I'd call landmark legislation," she said, referring to a pair of oversight bills passed by the Council.
