Instead of scattering oversight among six institutions, the government could focus on three.
Mr. Bobbitt argues that instead of legislating oversight, it's best for Congress (and the country) to trust this administration with broad powers and programs that remain undefined.
(Mountaintop-removal is a particularly destructive form of mining in which entire mountains are blasted apart to expose the coal seams inside; the rubble is typically dumped in nearby valleys). Instead of strengthening oversight of this type of mining, the Bush administration proposed last week to loosen regulations and allow it to expand.
Instead of serious oversight, there are endless hearings on faux scandals like Benghazi.
Instead of public oversight, information and investigations, silence or sly remarks from anonymous U.S. officials are what pass for accountability.
The head of that effort, Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer, has advocated for local control of the fairgrounds, instead of state oversight.
Lawmakers might decide to stop short of a full-blown bankruptcy proposal and establish instead some sort of oversight panel for distressed states, akin to the Municipal Assistance Corporation, which helped New York City during its fiscal crisis of 1975.
If a country proposed a man, instead of offering them oversight of financial markets, competition, energy, or economic affairs, he would offer them a less important position, such as sport.
For instance, instead of requiring additional oversight on this and other tax credits, Congress should encourage IRS to shift its enforcement focus to small business noncompliance that contributes 7-10 timoremore to the tax gap.
Instead of restraining government oversight, the result is often sweeping and unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles to innovation that aren't well-matched to actual threats.
