Sentence examples for oversight provisions from inspiring English sources

"Modest transparency and oversight provisions are not enough.

He challenged about 1,200 sections of bills — more than all predecessors combined — including a ban on torture and oversight provisions of the USA Patriot Act.

The clear implication was that, regardless of who was in charge, even well-intentioned spies would overreach in the absence of robust oversight provisions.

But while the Assembly bill is similar in broad strokes to Mr. Ravitch's proposal, it leaves out some oversight provisions that were intended to impose order and discipline on state spending.

The May directive, the major result of Barack Obama's post-Ferguson "review" of police militarization, recommended that the so-called "1033" equipment distribution effort add oversight provisions, not ban currently provided tactical equipment, vehicles and weaponry.

These market oversight provisions are backed up by a duty on local authorities to meet the needs of the adults who were receiving care from a failed provider if that provider were to fail.

The Treasury Department eventually did make direct investments in financial-services firms, but the bill includes few meaningful restrictions on executive compensation, and the oversight provision will likely have only a modest influence on how the bailout money is distributed and spent.

Lawmakers may have found some comfort in the fact that the president pledged that a bailout would include an oversight provision and that it should preclude executives from receiving a windfall a sticking point among many members of Congress.

(Congress' approval rating is even worse, finds RCP: just 21.3%.) As negotiations have evolved on Capitol Hill during the last several days, it has become evident that the final bailout bill will include an oversight provision for the Treasury secretary.

Importantly, the independent oversight provision provides no specifics.

Clarke said the largest numbers of calls have come from Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia, four states that had been under the close scrutiny of the Voting Rights Act until the Supreme Court relaxed the oversight provision in 2013. .