PETER J. BOYER: I don't know that Boehner or the others has specifically addressed that issue yet, but I do know that they mean to vigorously exercise the Congressional oversight function.
He also sounded determined to make his shop a real player in this debate, a promise that suggests someone might finally exercise the independent oversight now lacking in Washington.
Because public money is used, most states grant charters to run such schools only to nonprofit groups with the expectation that they will exercise the same independent oversight that public school boards do.
Mr. Morris can berate Mr. Greenspan for having refused to exercise the Fed's oversight over the mortgage market, but his critique cannot eradicate the deep antiregulatory sentiment that pervades the corporate culture and produces people like Mr. Greenspan in the first place.
The report found that these problems were "not a consequence of probation privatization per se" but what comes to pass when "public officials allow probation companies to profit by extracting fees directly from probationers, and then fail to exercise the kind of oversight needed to protect probationers from abusive and extortionate practices".
I don't think it is unwarranted to worry that a Congress that can't respect the intentions of the president's budget -- one that is trying to move us toward a safer future -- will be able to exercise the kind of oversight on Iraq withdrawal and Afghan population security -- that we need to move forward.
We have a chance, with the government's rescue of two institutions that have backed $5 trillion in mortgages, to not only demand public control over the boards of the two institutions but, more important, have a real debate over the proper role of government and how the public exercises some oversight over the "free market".
A further point will center on the information necessary for the board and its respective committees to exercise this oversight.
Befidi: Search funds are regulated in the same way as most alternative investment vehicles, with no one in particular exercising the day-to-day oversight of them.
"As the House of Bishops, we have come to the conclusion that Bishop Bennison's capacity to exercise the ministry of pastoral oversight is irretrievably damaged," the bishops said in a resolution passed overwhelmingly during their meeting in Phoenix.
