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The Council has been seeking a role in the redevelopment, holding oversight hearings and lobbying unsuccessfully for a position on the redevelopment board.

The New York City Council is considering holding oversight hearings into racial and gender diversity at the top levels of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration, according to council members.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 - Complaining that Republicans have failed to oversee how billions of dollars of taxpayer money is being spent, Senate Democrats said Monday that they would begin holding oversight hearings of their own, even though they are in the minority and have no subpoena power to compel the testimony of government officials.

In addition, analysts and lobbyists say a Republican-controlled Congress may be less likely to investigate industry practices or hold oversight hearings that may embarrass the industry.

House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee have called on the committee's Republican leadership to hold oversight hearings based on reporting in The New York Times in May that found the rate of sexual assault of Native American women is more than twice the national average and even greater in rural Alaskan villages.

Congress should hold oversight hearings to make sure agencies are working to implement existing anti-discrimination statutes, the report urges.

He accompanied Pelosi on her controversial trip to Syria, and his committee has frequently held oversight hearings critical of the Bush administration's foreign policy.

However, it is still a key part of the foreign policy process because it authorizes programs such as foreign aid and has the power to hold oversight hearings and help shape the U.S. foreign policy agenda.

The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif).

More seriously, Congress should hold oversight hearings on FCC-NTIA corrupton modeled after its recent GSA hearings.

Assemblyman Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), chairman of the powerful Utilities and Commerce Committee, plans to hold oversight hearings, beginning next month, into allegations of wrongdoing at the 1,000-person 1,000-person