Mr. Alvarez is working with senior administrators from several county agencies on such details as arranging police escorts for trucks hauling voting equipment to precincts, ensuring that the machines are plugged into working electrical outlets (an embarrassing oversight last month) and monitoring the training and testing of poll workers.
One hundred forty-eight years after three-fourths of the states voted to approve the amendment, Mississippi's legislature finally took steps to fix the glaring oversight last month.
Pettitte said in a deposition conducted by the House oversight committee earlier this month that several days before the report was announced McNamee left phone and text messages for him "just basically saying, 'I'm sorry, man.
Giving evidence to a Senate oversight committee earlier this month, FBI director James Comey revealed the agency had been unable to access the contents of more than 3,000 mobile devices in the first half of the fiscal year, despite having legal authority to access the data.
"Anyone who has been a judge will tell you a judge needs to hear both sides of a case before deciding," retired federal Judge James Robertson, who served on the court from 2002 to 2005, told an oversight panel this month.
At a patent office oversight hearing last month, the head of the patent office reported on progress implementing the patent reform law, including hiring more patent officers to deal with a backlog of over 600,000 patent applications.
That's 5,000 loans according to John Prior of HousingWire.com, but according to MortgageOrb.com the number is 3,039, and according a report from The Congressional Oversight Panel last month it's closer to 700.
Duncan acknowledged at an oversight committee last month that the program "has come to be a symbol of everything that's wrong with the DHS, when 4,000 bored cops fly around the country First Class, committing more crimes than they stop".
Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit fed concern among the unit's remaining employees that Citigroup's commitment might wither under U.S. pressure when he told a bailout oversight panel this month that banks shouldn't use their own money to speculate, the people said.
Freddie Mac's primary regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise oversight, in August demanded that the company name a chief executive instead of Mr. Parseghian.
