The phrase "exercising oversight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of supervising or monitoring activities, processes, or organizations to ensure compliance and effectiveness.
Example: "The committee is responsible for exercising oversight on the budget to ensure proper allocation of funds."
Alternatives: "providing supervision" or "conducting oversight".
"It is disingenuous to believe that the same board that breached its fiduciary duties in exercising oversight responsibility over certain wayward employees is the best arbiter of appropriate corporate governance," he wrote.
And in what amounts to a plea of guilty to a major commission finding -- that there are too many committees exercising oversight of intelligence agencies -- nine panels scheduled hearings this month on the commission's recommendations.
And the Republican-controlled Congress has so far shown no interest in exercising oversight for such basic changes in a law designed to protect the rights of American workers.
"In my 20 years of doing oversight work," Bromwich noted in one footnote, "I have never before had the entity over which I was exercising oversight unilaterally dictate who could be interviewed, even in those instances in which I have dealt with very sensitive matters".
Given Ms. Warren's prescience and her role in shaping financial reform legislation — not to mention her effective performance running the Congressional panel exercising oversight over federal financial bailouts — it was only natural that she be appointed to get the new consumer protection agency up and running.
But if Brooks means the sort of arrangements that keep members of Congress, who are supposed to be exercising oversight, from pushing back after secret briefings, or that lead the President to tell us that the acquiescence of all three branches — even when one is represented by a secret, rubber-stamping court — should ease all doubts about a policy, then perhaps some damage is useful.
Of course, Congress should create a select committee to exercise oversight.
"But I intend to exercise oversight of future hat appropriations during the current budget cycle".
"It doesn't have the authority to choose which committee will exercise oversight.
The next mayor should also exercise oversight or hire experts to guide the board into the computer age.
This is a brazen attempt to intimidate judges, and it cannot be justified by Congress's unchallenged responsibility to exercise oversight over the criminal justice system.
