The phrase "administration to explain" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a request for the administration to provide an explanation, but as it stands, it is incomplete and ambiguous.
Example: "The committee requested the administration to explain the recent policy changes."
Alternatives: "administration to clarify" or "administration to provide details".
At the very least, they should ask the administration to explain its actions with an eye toward reversing them.
The committee's report puts increased pressure on the Bush administration to explain its rationale for taking the nation to war.
"I expect the administration to explain exactly how this new verification agreement advances American interests and those of our allies," he said.
Instead the program relies on Richard N. Perle, a business consultant who was an important aide in the Reagan administration, to explain the government's view.
Allow the administration to explain why Prism keeps the public without encroaching on privacy and let Snowden argue the counter view.
The government said it wanted the Bush administration to explain why it canceled the visa of a close ally of President Evo Morales, Senator Leonilda Zurita, who was planning to travel to the United States for a speaking tour.
The Bush administration needs to explain why it is still authorizing such illegal coercive interrogation.
The Obama administration declined to explain what the senators were talking about.
Newly released documents from the Clinton presidential library reveal how the administration worked to explain the often-criticised US response to genocide in Rwanda.
The administration tried to explain on its Web site two days later that the finding used a small, skewed sample and was not representative.
"I would wish that the administration move to explain what is ambiguous in the statement to avoid interpretations that may contradict or undermine it," Mr. Mubarak told reporters in Cairo.
