The question now is whether to strengthen the controls, by tightening rules and broadening oversight, or to narrow them down.
"The Department of Buildings has made enormous strides in rooting out corruption over the past six years, but this case underscores that there remains more work to do," he said Mr. Bloomberg, along with the City Council, on Wednesday announced a legislative package aimed at broadening oversight at building sites.
In another significant shift, the board is proposing that auditors broaden their oversight over company reports.
Along with the Council, he proposed legislation to broaden the oversight of construction sites, increase fines for violations and register crucial contractors.
The council, in fact, said it supported a bipartisan bill introduced in April by Senators Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, and Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, that would broaden F.D.A. oversight of cosmetics, including giving the agency recall ability.
Nor, unfortunately, will it substantially broaden the international oversight of Iraq's passage to elected government in the ways that Senator John Kerry and others have recently proposed.
An alternative approach, which has been called system-wide or macroprudential oversight, would broaden the mandate of regulators and supervisors to encompass consideration of potential systemic risks and weaknesses as well.
The new proposal would not require added premarket testing of such implants but would broaden the F.D.A's postapproval oversight by giving it the authority to mandate that companies collect data on device performance.
But the shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, is attempting to broaden the attack, focusing on the oversight of all free schools and academies in England.
Then, a new law broadened the still secret oversight of the spies.
The accusations broaden the focus of the surveillance controversy from the National Security Agency to one of the congressional committees charged with exercising oversight of it – and the panel's closeness to the NSA it is supposed to oversee.
