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I respect the Congress's oversight responsibility.
Hillary Clinton
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Congress
Oversight
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
Bob Barr
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Former United States Representative
Backbone
Oversight
Congressional
High Time
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
Joseph Stiglitz
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Economist
Bitcoin
Oversight
Successful
Lack
Potential
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The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
James Comey
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Accountability
Becoming
Importance
Oversight
Lesson
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We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.
Matt Apuzzo
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Oversight
Institutionalized
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Maggie Gallagher
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Writer
Government
Politics
Exercise
Oversight
Political
Political Power
Voters
Politics Power Political
Governments
Otherwise
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Will Durant
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Writer
Oversight
Packages
Virtue
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My job as attorney general has been, in regard to guns, to have oversight in regard to concealed-carry licenses.
Mike Dewine
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Ohio Attorney General
Attorney
Oversight
Regard
Attorney General
Guns
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I see my role as police commissioner as providing strategic oversight, support and accountability for the bureau.
Ted Wheeler
/
Accountability
Oversight
Providing
Strategic
Bureau
Commissioner
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
Jack Reed
/
Improving
Oversight
Stability
Sustainability
Funds
Hedge
Vital
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.
Tina Brown
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Journalist
Cattle
Management
Minerals
Oversight
Secretary
Sorry
Hat
Interior
Service
Turned
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By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.
Ann Kirkpatrick
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United States Representative
Men
Accountability
Country
Helping
Men And Women
Oversight
Men Women Country
Empower
Women Men Country
Mission
Served
Va
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When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.
Jocko Willink
/
Individual
Members
Oversight
Team
Trusted
Allowed
Disciplined
Highly
Operate
Therefore
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When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.
Robert J. Waldinger
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Cost
Failing
Health Care
Human Relationships
Oversight
Policy
Staggering
Health Value Care
Relationships
Seriously
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I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.
Elon Musk
/
Investor
Oversight
Public Good
Affects
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At the NYPD, a judge doesn't need to sign off on opening up an investigation into a mosque as a terrorism organization. The oversight is internal.
Matt Apuzzo
/
Investigation
Nypd
Opening
Oversight
Terrorism
Internal
Mosque
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I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
Darrell Issa
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U.s. Representative
Government
Federal Government
Oversight
Reform
Two
Fond
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As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.
Charles B. Rangel
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Checks
Executive Branch
Oversight
Believe Must I Believe
Actions
Balances
Branch
Believe I Believe Must
Checks And Balances
Executive
Member
Requires
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I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Writer
Organization
Oversight
Planning
Water
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It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.
Megan Chance
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Author
Children
Needed
Oversight
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If a prime minister can suspend parliament to deliver a 'no deal' Brexit, what will the government try to do next with no democratic scrutiny or oversight?
Caroline Lucas
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Democratic
Oversight
Parliament
Prime Minister
Scrutiny
Brexit
Deliver
Minister
Suspend
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Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
David E. Sanger
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Offensive
Oversight
White House
Defensive
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Our best line of defense, trying to keep this nation safe and secure, is an effective intelligence-gathering capability, with robust congressional oversight.
Richard Burr
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United States Senator
Capability
Defense
Oversight
Robust
Secure
Congressional
Effective
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
Sal Albanese
/
Politician
City Council
Council
Oversight
Accountable
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A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.
Heather Brooke
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Oversight
Opposite
Largely
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Our Constitution in many situations rightly demands a warrant or order before we take investigative steps. And the FISC provides that vital, independent oversight.
Christopher A. Wray
/
Oversight
Steps
Investigative
Rightly
Vital
Warrant
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I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.
Roger Mahony
/
Church
Grace
Involvement
Oversight
Board
Lay
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Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.
Richard Shelby
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United States Senator
Independence
Federal Reserve
Immune
Importance
Officials
Oversight
Stressed
Congressional
Fed
Reserve
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Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
John Poindexter
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Armed Force Officer
Government
Access
Activity
Data
Oversight
People
Audit
Too
Commercial
Far
Trail
Uncontrolled
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I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.
Mike Coffman
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U.s. Representative
Affair
Investigation
Marine
Marine Corps
Oversight
Veteran
Committee
Corps
Importantly
Subcommittee
Veterans
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Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making government more accountable by investigating waste, mismanagement, and improprieties.
Ron Desantis
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Investigating
Mismanagement
Oversight
Serving
Waste
Accountable
Committee
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And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.
Sibel Edmonds
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Translator
Authority
Campaigning
Judiciary
Oversight
Past
Responsibility
Senate
Trying
Committee
Judiciary Committee
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Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.
Michael Eisner
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Businessman
Appreciate
Background Noise
Noise
Oversight
Point Of View
Views
Background
Brand
Consumer
Simply
Editorial
Eventually
Point
View
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The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
Rand Paul
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United States Senator
Nsa
Oversight
Accountable
Due
Programs
Naming
Suspect
Terrorists
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
Sam Graves
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Advocating
Authority
Behalf
Input
License
Oversight
Small Business
Business Will More
Congressional
Grant
Programs
More And More
Statutory
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We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our country's secrets is as likely as a coin flip.
Dianne Feinstein
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United States Senator
Classification
Flip
Intelligence Agencies
Meaningful
Oversight
Secure
Agencies
Coin
Proper
We Cannot
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The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.
Ari Melber
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Court
Oversight
Special
Surveillance
Act
Amendment
Established
Domestic
Foreign
Gut
Review
Spying
Subjected
System
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Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.
Sharan Burrow
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Fifa
Governing
Oversight
Referee
Rule Of Law
Soccer
Follows
Halves
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The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.
Ben Bernanke
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Economist
Allowing
Discipline
Federal Reserve
Importance
Oversight
Aid
Effective
Fully
Recognized
Reserve
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The promise I've tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the founders, right, the oversight of courts and the oversight of Congress will be at the heart of what the FBI does.
James Comey
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Design
Congress
Fbi
Founders
Honor
Oversight
Promise
Rule Of Law
Courts
Entire
Entire Career
Rule
Tried
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We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
Barbara Lee
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U.s. Representative
Debate
Diplomacy
Disputes
Harm
Including
Oversight
Sufficient
Tools
Congressional
Putting
Resolving
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A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in 'street life' from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack.
Heather Mac Donald
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Oversight
Parental
Penalties
Providing
Self Control
Severe
Presence
Surrogate
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A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.
Roger B. Taney
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Injury
Mistake
Oversight
Principles
Ready
Sovereignty
Willing
Repair
Supposed
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To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.
Wil Wheaton
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Actor
Anonymity
Hoover
Oversight
Personal Information
Important People Information
Information People Important
Governments
Telephone
Uses
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I voted against H.R. 4293, the Stress Test Improvement Act of 2017, which would modify the regulatory oversight of certain financial institutions in a way that is likely to expose our economy to greater risk.
Seth Moulton
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Improvement
Oversight
Expose
Modify
Regulatory
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Our soldiers deserve better. They need a plan for success. They need an administration that is honest about the costs of war, human and otherwise, and they need full accountability and oversight on Capitol Hill.
Dick Durbin
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United States Senator
Accountability
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Deserve
Oversight
Soldiers
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
Ted Yoho
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United States Representative
Cliffs
Hindsight
Household
Names
Oversight
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Sooner
Cliff
Committee
Household Name
Planned
Talks
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We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Yes, the American people want us to legislate, they want us to insist on furthering their set of values, but they also want us to resist and exercise our oversight powers.
Ilhan Omar
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Exercise
Gum
Oversight
Time Walk People
American People
Chew
Insist
Legislate
Powers
Same Time
Yes
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In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.
Rebecca Mackinnon
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Blogger
Block
Britain
Judicial
Oversight
Providers
Service Providers
Transparency
Harmful
List
Maintained
Sites
Web
Web Sites
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No responsible scholar who thinks a sitting president cannot be indicted also thinks an attorney general can try to truncate a process of oversight - by Congress, for example - by 'pre-clearing' the president in advance.
Neal Katyal
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Attorney
Oversight
Scholar
Advance
Attorney General
For Example
Indicted
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