Sentence examples for law oversight from inspiring English sources
Administrative law oversight has been screwed so tightly by successive governments, and especially by last December's amendments to the Migration Act and the Maritime Powers Act.
Mr. Reid said he would back away if Republicans confirmed seven pending nominees, including leaders for the Labor Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, a consumer protection agency and vacancies to a politically important labor law oversight board.
It is time for members of Congress who truly care about rule of law, oversight and the financial security of this country to speak up.
The Dodd-Frank law dropped oversight of the $300 trillion swaps market in the commission's lap.
There was no open records law, little oversight of lobbyists and hardly any incentive to conduct the public's business in the open.
It says that there are "inadequacies in both law and oversight that have helped create a credibility gap that has undermined public confidence".
A GCHQ spokesman refused to comment on any particular matters, but said all its intelligence activities were in compliance with UK law and oversight.
But the 2001 rewrite, which President George W. Bush named No Child Left Behind, expanded federal power by requiring annual standardized testing and greatly extending the law's oversight of state education agencies and local school districts.
A law reforming oversight of doping was passed in a last-minute bid to avert a ban, but Kenyan competitors face extra individual tests if they wish to participate in the Games.
In February the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, a lobby for state public utilities commissions that has opposed federal siting, introduced a draft resolution suggesting it would "not oppose amendments" to federal law providing oversight to FERC.
The company is also being investigated in California over its use of another software tool, known as "Greyball", and apparently designed to try to evade regulatory and law enforcement oversight.
