Republican lawmakers on House oversight committees are pressing the investigation, with more hearings set for this week.
A. and officials at the congressional intelligence-oversight committees would not even acknowledge the existence of the report.
Some members of the Senate and House intelligence-oversight committees are also believed to have had limited access to the report.
So there have been administration-level briefings between administration officials and the agencies that are involved in the action and their oversight committees.
Local oversight committees will be set up to ward off anti-competitive practices, to the frustration of those who welcomed a drive to cut NHS bureaucracy.
So, again, we had the calls on Friday, on Saturday, the briefing through the oversight committees, and we're going to continue to brief and consult going forward.
After the congressional leadership was consulted by the President, the appropriate oversight committees -- again, State Department, Defense, intelligence community -- were briefed by the officials of those agencies.
It complements and supplements, rather than duplicates the oversight roles of the Director of National Intelligence, Department and Agency Inspectors General and General Counsels, and the Congressional Oversight Committees.
West had said that the list of exceptions had been made available to the congressional oversight committees earlier in the year, but had not been made public for privacy reasons.
In particular, he opposes any reduction in the number of congressional oversight committees and, consequently, the number of people who are briefed on covert intelligence matters due to the potential for leaks.
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West said that given this "cloud of suspicion, " certain practices would be changed: the secretary of the Army would inform military oversight committees each time an exception is made, and that the names would be made public as well.
Moreover, the creation of a permanent, Administrative state further reduced Constitutional limits by establishing a parallel government so vast and powerful that it has transformed Congress into gaggle of oversight committees whose members come and go even as the permanent bureaucracy expands its power whenever given the chance.
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Overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the study was given to the National Institute of Child Health and Development, with input from a number of advisory and oversight committees, the Director of the NIH, and with the involvement of other government agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency).
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"I'd want to look at the language, but I think it's very important that the oversight of the intelligence committees continue on and this joint bicameral, bipartisan investigation is allowed to do its work, " he said.
This should ensure a role in appointments to key committees, and oversight at meetings by Scottish officials.
The bill would also confer on the Banking Committee exclusive jurisdiction for areas clearly within the purview of other Senate committees charged with oversight of the defense, foreign policy and intelligence portfolios.
It requires audit committees of independent directors to exercise broad oversight, but in Germany firms don't even have audit committees.
Beginning in 1822, congressional oversight was handled by two standing committees: one for the Army, the other for the Navy.
And they're likely to use their control over committees to initiate aggressive oversight hearings and investigations into Bush administration policies in Iraq.
Thus, it is very important for the congressional intelligence committees to engage in intensive oversight of the counterintelligence area.
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An annual general congress of people's committees is meant to exercise oversight.
This would allow firms to opt out of a wide set of labor laws if they have independent worker committees that approve and have oversight of workplace regulations.
"The House, in consultation with the incoming administration and relevant committees, will review what oversight tools are at our disposal regarding this and other last minute attempts to inflict severe damage to the law in the waning moments of the Bush administration, " Hammill said.
The mayor singled out congressional committees as being unwilling to surrender oversight over pieces of a Balkanized regulatory system that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and others have proposed be streamlined.
Many committees choose to focus on asset allocation strategy and high level oversight and delegate the implementation and manager selection to an internal investment office or an outside advisor.
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And that I would insist that Congress do its part, in terms of funding, in terms of oversight, and part of that would be to reduce the number of committees involved in the process and things of that nature.
"The House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees will closely examine the findings and recommendations of the classified and unclassified reports, and will conduct appropriate oversight of electronic surveillance activities, " the California Democrat said.
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