Congress would specify the total budget for which it is willing to be held accountable and divide it among agencies roughly in proportion to potential lives saved or some other metric for what is regarded as a regulatory benefit.
It's one thing to be compassionate, it's another thing to be accountable for the money.
As more budgets flow to advertising on Facebook the discussion and debate has quickly moved away from if it should be used to how it should be accountable for ROI like any other media.
While we all acknowledge its power, we expect it to be accountable for itself.
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Before joining the shareholder activists calling for CEOs to be held accountable and stripped of their more obvious excesses, it's worth pausing to think about why those perks exist in the first place.
Mr Cameron said it was inevitable there would be criticism when ministers were or were not referred, and it was right that the prime minister should be accountable to Parliament in such cases.
"I think Joyce Banda has (an) amazing opportunity now to open it up, to allow this to be done in a more accountable way so that there isn't the opaqueness, there's more transparency and we can avoid the spiraling inequalities which occur through oil wealth, " he said.
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It says broadcasters should be accountable to the Welsh assembly for their work in devolved areas such as the Welsh language, education and the economy.
We cannot totally understand what they have been through even if they do talk to us about it, but we can be there to love and support them, hold them accountable for their behavior, help them get the assistance they need, and let them know that they are not alone.
But what we can do is to be friends to Israel, honest in our assessments of what it's going to take, hold the Palestinians accountable for their end of the bargain, and move the process forward.
These big brand gestures are making a splash here at Cannes, but more importantly they are leading the way to inspiring our industry to be more accountable for its actions and the positive impact it can have on individuals, communities, and even sometimes the world.
For it will always be true that when leaders are accountable to their people, their people are more likely to prosper.
In the Observer Peter Preston, the former Guardian editor who is becoming the respectable face of Operation Megaphone, tells us that if all previous efforts to make the press accountable have failed, it must be for some good reason.
It might be that you believe business must change and become more accountable to its customers.
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So, why would it be hard to prove Deloitte missed something big and should be held accountable?
As the Federal Reserve approaches its centennial, it should be held accountable for its failures and its reach for additional powers to fight the financial crisis, which the Fed itself helped create.
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I'm determined that this will be an accountable and open State Department as it has been in the past, and we will continue to do that, and we will provide answers.
It's a two way street and both men and women have to be personally accountable for their actions and reactions.
Governments judged it a vital project for Europe, but too vital a project to be consigned to the scarcely accountable bureaucracy of Brussels.
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