(Rushdie won the Booker of Bookers and the Best of the Booker prizes when they were given in celebration of the prize's 25th and 40th anniversaries, respectively). The award was administered by the Book Trust until 2002, when oversight passed to the Man Group PLC, an investment management firm.
"Regulatory oversight should pass wholly to Ofcom, which is already the public service regulator for the UK's broadcasting industry and has the ability to look at the BBC in the context of the market as a whole.
Republicans failed to provide thorough oversight or pass a single surveillance bill.
And Mr. de Blasio has gone further in his policy proposals, supporting police oversight measures passed by the City Council that Mr. Thompson has said are the wrong approach.
In pursuing oversight and passing necessary legislation, Congress can do its part to root out corruption, counteract the White House's nonstop disinformation campaign, secure voting rights and protect the First Amendment.
Curiously, within less than two years of adopting the Dodd-Frank reforms, a bipartisan consensus, led by President Obama, substantially liberalized government oversight by passing the JOBS Act.
Kline's charter-school oversight measure passed the House with bipartisan support.
On Monday, the oversight committee passed all other measures in the state's new K-12 science standards, but it referred the evolution provision back to a subcommittee for review.
Because of an oversight law passed by Congress in 2015, the president has to certify (or decertify) to Congress every 90 days whether Iran is complying with the nuclear accord and whether remaining party to the deal is in the U.S. national interest.
Because of an oversight law passed by Congress in 2015, which the Obama administration reluctantly signed, Trump's decision to decertify the international agreement will trigger a 60-day period, during which time Congress can fast-track legislation to reimpose sanctions against Iran with a simple majority vote in the House and the Senate.
