The Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing suggests that the State of California and its public employee retirement funds may play a critical role in fashioning a template for a truly national effort to introduce new national security- and human rights-minded "due diligence" into debt and equity purchasing decisions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The Environmental Audit committee has now finished hearing evidence and is set to report in the Summer.

BBC: UK laws 'spurring trade in endangered species'

Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, said at an earlier hearing that he had notified Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin of the audit.

WSJ: Director of IRS Unit Refuses to Answer Questions

They have a hearing on the management of hospital consultants based on this report from the National Audit Office, which said the new contract for hospital consultants, introduced in October 2003, delivered many of the expected benefits in exchange for a significant increase in pay.

BBC: Week ahead in committee

The committee hearing was held on 2 December 2009 following a damning report over the summer by the National Audit Office (NAO), who refused to sign off the commission's accounts.

BBC: Public Accounts Committee