Under former President Hosni Mubarak, the police and security forces operated with little training or oversight, using arbitrary force to cow citizens — especially the political opposition, including Islamists like Mr. Morsi — into silence and submission.
In the scandals over oil royalties in the 1990's, government investigators, aided by industry whistle-blowers and investigation by the Project on Government Oversight, found that companies were using a host of tricks to understate their sale prices.
Mr. Christie curbed an effort in June by the Legislature to improve oversight of the halfway house system, using a line-item veto to reduce new disclosure requirements.
That could also be done with a mail-in primary, even as Florida Democrats have proposed enlisting government help and using a specially created oversight board.
In a written statement after the hearing, Taylor said, "At a legislative oversight committee hearing today, I inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive.
Treatment was monitored by a safety oversight process using central data to enhance study site compliance and consistency with treatment protocols.
Michael Greenstone of the Hamilton Project, a liberal-leaning research group, thinks that could be done through the creation of a non-partisan congressional oversight body using the best evidence available to vet regulations, much as the Congressional Budget Office vets fiscal policy.
Similarly, Mr Pitt thinks he can transform market oversight by using the SEC's right to exempt firms and individuals from old regulations, giving the SEC wide freedoms to set whatever new rules it wants.
Another enhancement to care that typically involves more clinician oversight is using new technologies rarely integrated into traditional care, such as virtual-reality cue exposure for alcohol use (Lee et al. 2007).
