The inability of state regulators to oversee properly an insurance industry now dominated by big firms adds to the already-strong case for Congress to create a federal regulator to monitor the industry nationwide.
An example is the use of gestation stalls as one of many sow-housing solutions that, overseen properly by animal care workers, can be beneficial to the animal's health and safety.
Part of the problem, Mr. Rhodes and others testified, is that no single federal agency has the authority or resources to oversee properly the laboratories, particularly those that operate without federal funds.
"We make extensive recommendations that the intelligence and law enforcement agencies must implement to clarify and bring consistency to their procedures, to remedy the lack of record-keeping requirements and to ensure that we can oversee properly how section 94 directions are given and used".
A report by the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security blamed the Coast Guard for not properly overseeing work by its contractors.
Yet they were not running a bank that was up to all the challenges it faced, including properly overseeing billions of dollars' worth of exotic products, according to Citigroup insiders and regulators who later criticized the bank.
But Hodge, now retired as chair of the public accounts committee, believes there are still questions for the government to answer: "The antics at Durand academy illustrated the difficulties the department has in properly overseeing public money.
With the addition of cyber-risk expertise and greater diversity of expertise and background on the board, properly overseeing the cybersecurity risk will not only better protect the company but could lead to more opportunity for those companies that take advantage of technological insights.
The report found that the cemetery lacked the expert staff necessary to properly manage contractors, and that Army agencies did not properly oversee the cemetery's contracts.
Mr. Hynes said Ms. Bell had failed to properly oversee and monitor Mr. Adams's work.
Many such details have not been properly overseen by the director.
