"If the person leading that oversight is the overseen, it's a fundamentally flawed system," she said.
After the shakeup, the two Republican lawmakers leading the oversight investigation — Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Representative Darrell Issa of California — said they would press on.
Democratic Senator Carl Levin has chaired the subcommittee for ten of the last 14 years, and has been described as a one-man band leading government oversight of major fuckups, like the 2008 financial meltdown.
"This bill will establish world-leading oversight to govern an investigatory powers regime which is more open and transparent than anywhere else in the world".
"It will provide the strongest safeguards and world-leading oversight arrangements," May told parliament.
Why the controversy?Despite the promise of the Bill providing "the strongest safeguards and world-leading oversight arrangements," human rights organizations have suggested that the Bill is a further intrusion of a citizen's right to privacy, and privacy rights campaigners have raised serious concerns.
Indeed, Paul L. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who is leading a special oversight board with broad powers to make changes at Andersen, said that criminal charges at this stage would seriously complicate efforts to restructure and rehabilitate the firm.
Here are one or two highlights: 1. "Ministers have agreed an approach for mainstreaming SD which in broad terms consists of providing Ministerial leadership and oversight, leading by example, embedding SD into policy, and transparent and independent scrutiny".
Successful implementation of the MDEP recommendations should result in tools that can be used to enhance the ability of regulatory bodies to cooperate on reactor design evaluations, vendor inspections, and construction oversight, leading to more efficient and more safety-focused regulatory decisions.
