Also giving evidence to the committee, Richard Alcock, director of the Home Office's oversight program for state use of communications data, suggested senior civil servants have a different interpretation on the encryption requirements vs those reassuring statements from senior government ministers about 'not banning encryption'.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has recommended approval of two laboratories for testing electronic voting machines under a new federal oversight program.
Read Part 1, "NSF Urged to Improve Oversight of Program for Scientists on Loan".
Instead, she was a "rotator," on leave from SRI International, a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California, under a program that NSF uses far more than any other federal research agency (see Part 1, "NSF Urged to Improve Oversight of Program for Scientists on Loan").
It reduced federal oversight of states' academic standards, as well as oversight of state programs for historically underserved students.
"Sometimes minority parties call for oversight" of government programs for strictly partisan reasons, said Wilson, who faces a potentially strong Democratic challenger this fall.
Dr. Bellonci, who helped develop oversight and monitoring programs for foster children prescribed psychotropic medications across the country, said such drugs in conjunction with proper state management and trauma-based therapy may be acceptable.
USDA agencies, including FSIS and APHIS, work closely with consumer-interest groups to inform the public about oversight policies and programs for biotechnology products and to discuss any safety concerns associated with production and marketing.
The bank lobby has been fighting proposed government oversight of overdraft programs for years.
279, 280, substituted "Major Defense Acquisition Programs" for "Oversight of Cost Growth in Major Programs" in chapter heading, added item 2430, and transferred former item 2305a from chapter 137 and redesignated it as item 2438.
