A contentious effort to expand audits of the Federal Reserve that sailed through the House despite heavy criticism appears to be picking up steam as the Senate considers broad new financial regulations.
Mr. Maduro had agreed to an expanded audit on the night of the election, but the next day government officials reversed course and said they opposed it.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Election officials on Thursday agreed to a request by Venezuela's losing presidential candidate to conduct an expanded audit of the results from the recent election won by a protégé of Hugo Chávez.
How it came to enjoy special legal protections granted by Congress is a study in skillful political maneuvering, participants in the deal said. 1 Auditing Labor Unions The Bush administration is rapidly expanding audits of the nation's labor unions, citing a need to ferret out and deter corruption.
Next, when CMS introduced the RAC program, it conducted a three-year pilot to ensure the program worked properly before expanding audits nationally.
The council's president, Tibisay Lucena, told AFP news agency that the expanded audit was not a recount but would cover all ballot boxes not audited on election day by reviewing a sample two-thirds of them over the next month.
took the lead from the other side and eventually worked out a compromise with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn)., who opposed an expanded audit.
"It is an absolute parallel to what the auditors went through" when they tried to expand from auditing to consulting.Indeed, the conflicts inherent in the agencies' business model have raised fears that the rating industry might be asking for regulatory trouble.
Mr. Murphy added that increased disclosure would be meaningless unless it was accompanied by expanding the auditing staff of the I.R.S. so that the disclosures were fully investigated and improper activities were identified and stopped.
In another sign that social reporting is growing, some large accounting firms are jumping in, looking to expand their auditing and consulting services.
As part of the project these tools are being expanded to audit delivery of clinical services to people known to have 1) hypertension, 2) coronary heart disease, 3) mental health conditions (focusing specifically on schizophrenia and drug induced psychosis as the two most common forms of psychosis in NT Aboriginal communities), and 4) renal disease.
