"Conclusion of the pending program review," she added, "remains subject to approval by the I.M.F.'s executive board".
The companies also want the next phase of the White House's efficiency initiative to include a midterm program review.
The program review mechanism likely to be emulated in Britain was unprecedentedly drastic, phrasing itself in terms of "what to preserve", not "what to cut".
A spokesman for Senator Dean G. Skelos of Long Island, the Republican deputy majority leader and a member of the authority's capital program review board, echoed those thoughts.
Dr. Robert Bartlett, who was the director of the inspection service's program review office from 1979 to 1994, said Mr. Puchta, 68, had blocked several efforts during those years to force him to clamp down on unsavory plants.
It added: Risks include further challenges to fiscal and reform measures by Portugal's Constitutional Court, weaker-than-expected economic performance, and a resurgence of political tension leading to delays in 2014 budget or program review.
The report for the legislative group, the Program Review and Investigations Committee, said that in some of the cases examined, "tragic things happened that but for a different set of circumstances might not have".
When the Liberal government came to power in 1993, the government of Canada's debt had reached 66% of GDP; after 1998, with all the government's "program review" reforms implemented, Canada ran consecutive surpluses for almost a decade.
He also pointed out that in the fall of 2008, Apollo had alerted investors that a program review by the Department of Education was likely to occur in the coming year.
On Feb. 9, about three weeks after the Department of Education sent the e-mail, federal education officials advised Apollo that the government would be conducting an in-depth program review of the company's financial aid practices.
"Given the fact that a negative program review could cause the Department of Education to revoke Apollo's Title IV participation, it seems unlikely that board members would be unaware of the serious findings" in the report.
