Sentence examples for budget oversight from inspiring English sources

Note: no congressional budget oversight or Senate O.K. required!!! True or false?

Vladimir Kuznetsov, the Russian ex-chairman of the UN's budget oversight committee, is serving 51 months for money laundering.

Because the federal government matches state spending, New York politicians overexpand the program and eschew budget oversight.

The audit cited Connetquot's multimillion-dollar surplus as evidence of lax budget oversight, but Dr. Groveman said the district had been purposely trying to build up reserves.

Since it was swept into power last year, Mr. Orban's government has tightened its grip on the news media, curbed the rights of the top Constitutional Court, renationalized private pension assets and dismantled an independent budget oversight body.

Their proposal threatens to divide the 17 European Union countries that use the euro from the 27 nations that are part of the larger European Union, some of which, like Britain, are likely to reject intrusive budget oversight from Brussels.

However, when the Provincial Assembly replaced the Provincial General Council in 1834, many of the powers of town councils (including the setting of municipal budgets, oversight of expenditures, creation of jobs, and the nomination of civil servants) were transferred to the provincial government.

For the last week, the wrangling has effectively shut down the committee, disrupting work on matters that include negotiations with the House over next year's intelligence budget and oversight of developments in trouble spots like Iran and North Korea.

According to a person briefed on the negotiations, Mr. Dodd has agreed to give way on a freestanding agency but has fought to create a regulatory entity that would have an independent chairman and budget, and oversight over nonbank financial institutions, like payday lenders.

It is evident that Capitol Hill must streamline to one or two committees with centralized budgeting and oversight powers.

In addition, the leasing arrangement was seen by many in Congress as a way to bypass the normal Congressional budgeting and oversight processes and raised the prospect that the Air Force would be financing critical military equipment through a complicated special-purpose entity, similar to the off-the-books financing used by Enron and others.