"We should focus more on governance, which could give rise to people saying that we need to be timely and not offer excuses for inaction," says Henisz, who recently prepared testimony for a congressional committee looking into the oversight for a new stimulus plan.
Regardless of its shortcomings, that a deal with substantive oversight for New York cops is near the finish line shows importance of fighting at the local level to rein in police powers.
Regardless of its shortcomings, that a deal with substantive oversight for New York cops is near the finish line shows importance of fighting at the local level to rein in police powers.
It takes ten years or more of regulatory oversight for even one new plant to start up.
New safeguards for 401 k)'s, new oversight for accountants, greater authority for securities regulators and new restrictions on stock analysts are all under consideration.
It includes effective mechanisms for oversight of the new surveillance authorities by the FISA court, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and now the Judiciary Committees.
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The closed-door meeting illustrated a fundamental shift under way in the futures industry: financial firms, ordinarily loath to accept regulation, are now spearheading efforts for new oversight as they try to heal the black eye left by MF Global and the disappearance of $1.2 billion in its customers' money.
The closed-door meeting illustrated a fundamental shift under way in the futures industry: financial firms, ordinarily loath to accept regulation, are now spearheading efforts for new oversight as they try to heal the black eye left by MF Global and the disappearance of $1.2 billion of its customers' money.
Officials said they would sign new, uniform agreements with 66 local jurisdictions that already have the program and with 11 new ones, formalizing the priority on pursuing "dangerous criminal aliens" but also specifying the powers granted to police and providing for new oversight by the Department of Homeland Security.
Hammond was giving evidence to parliament's intelligence and security committee, which is reviewing the need for new oversight legislation to regulate the UK's electronic espionage agency, GCHQ, in the light of the revelations on bulk data collection made by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
