Sentence examples for oversight act from inspiring English sources

One law, called the GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2017, gives the Government Accountability Office more power to compel other agencies to provide information during its investigations.

Sometimes legislators have insisted on close accountability, as when they enacted the Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980, with its stringent reporting requirements for covert operations, or when a series of amendments to appropriations bills in the 1980's sought to end covert actions in Nicaragua.

In deciding to proceed without notifying Congress, the White House clearly violated the intent of the Intelligence Oversight Act and Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey's explicit guarantees to the oversight committees that he would inform them of any covert operation.

Move to a two-year budgeting process, as outlined in the Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2013 (H.R. 1869).

For example, the bill from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California), the Iran Congressional Oversight Act (S.669), would require reports on Iran's adherence to an agreement and, if Iran violates its commitments, expedite the snapback of sanctions.

We also worked on the Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act to bring Wisconsin style- biennial budgeting to DC and ensure we take a longer view when setting our spending goals.

In the British Medical Journal, she claimed oversight acted as a safeguard for research by showing it 'can be regulated without being banned, that knowledge can be pursued without being put to morally intolerable uses'.

The same strict regulatory oversight should act as a guarantee against the over-extraction of water, leaving water sources scarce or prejudicing water access for other local users.

Erasmus brought together a centralized steering committee and project team of clinicians, information technologists, project managers, and an epidemiologist to provide oversight and act as leadership nodes for their respective functional areas.

She will provide budgetary oversight and act as the DEFT Center's advisory board liaison.

The Congressional representatives believe that the Small Business 7(a) Lending Oversight Reform Act offers commonsense reforms to increase the efficiency and reach of the program.