Sentence examples for perform its oversight from inspiring English sources

Brennan says he would be an advocate for the committee to "have the documentation that it needs" to perform its oversight role.

Mr. Reyes said the committee would perform its oversight duties but would first wait for more facts to emerge.

Normally, most would not fear a small group of inept bumblers, but these are not normal times as Congress fails to perform its oversight duty.

There has been no ruling about whether such a privilege outweighs a request by Congress for White House information to perform its oversight of the executive branch.

The ability of the board or a committee to perform its oversight role is, to a large extent, dependent upon the relationship and the flow of information between the directors, senior management, and the risk managers in the company.

As in that case, the speaker of the House is talking about the need for the House to perform its oversight role against a stonewalling White House, and a minority leader is bristling over vital Congressional work being shunted aside for a partisan witch hunt.

A C.I.A. spokesman, Mark Mansfield, said the agency's director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, was eager to accommodate the committee as it performed its oversight role.

Obama also said he would "work with Congress as it performs its oversight role" in investigating the IRS.

Obama added that he would "work with Congress as it performs its oversight role" in investigating the IRS.

But it's proper to ask whether the Joint Commission has adequately performed its oversight function.

The report noted that if the Police Commission had been performing its oversight role well, a monitor would have been unnecessary.