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- U.S. Bailout Fund Left Many Problems Unsolved: Watchdog
- By David LawderWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's $700 billion bailout program helped stabilize the financial system, but has done little to boost lending or stave off millions of home foreclosures, a government watchdog group said on Wednesday.The Congressional Oversight Panel's new monthly report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program...
- News items 2009-12-16
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- Warren's Oversight Panel: First Report Out; Republicans Already Squawking
- Surprise! The initial report by Elizabeth Warren’s TARP oversight panel, out yesterday, is not a product of bipartisan harmony: While the findings are likely to further inflame critics of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s efforts to unfreeze credit markets, they have split the oversight panel along party lines, raising...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Seattle Transit Oversight Panel Criticizes Light-Rail Budget.
- By Andrew Garber, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 9--Sound Transit's citizens-oversight panel yesterday criticized the agency's $3.8 billion light-rail budget as "highly aggressive and optimistic." In its year-end report, the panel also said it is worried Sound ...
- Research articles 2001-03-09
- U.S. Oversight Panel Chief: TARP Not a "slush Fund"
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury must seek Congressional approval if it wants to funnel some of its $700 billion bailout fund to jobs programs that do not involve financial services firms as intermediaries, a key overseer said on Wednesday.Elizabeth Warren, chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel, told CNBC television that...
- News items 2009-12-16
- TARP Oversight Panel Initial Report: Beside the Point, As Expected
- We expected the initial report from Elizabeth Warren’s TARP oversight panel to be tendentious and partisan. The early reviews are in: A key Republican voice on banking and regulatory policy, [Rep. John] Hensarling said he rejected the report because he received it eight minutes before he was...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Head of Congressional Oversight Panel Slams Geithner, Again
- The Daily Bail submits: TARP Watchdog, Elizabeth Warren, making a hand gesture in reference to Tim Geithner. The cynical title aside, I'm a huge fan of Harvard's Elizabeth Warren and the work she is attempting to do as the head of the COP (Congressional Oversight...
- External links 2009-04-06
- TARP Oversight Panel's First Report: What a Crock
- Tom Brown submits: Last week I ventured the view that Professor Elizabeth Warren, of Harvard Law School, is exactly not the woman to head the panel Congress established to provide oversight of the Treasury Department’s implementation of the TARP program. Warren has a long paper trail--and every page of...
- External links 2008-12-19
- Panel assesses AFA changes/ Victim advocates call discarding
- Past and current Air Force Academy leaders told a congressional oversight panel Friday they're confident the Air Force can reverse a culture that spawned allegations of sexual assault during the past decade. But victim advocates testified a new policy that abandons confidential reporting will discourage women from coming...
- Research articles 2003-07-12
- AFA demotion earns support/ Panel endorses general's loss of star
- A congressional oversight panel backs the demotion of a former Air Force Academy superintendent as punishment for the sexual assault scandal, the panel's chairwoman said Thursday. "They made a decision to remove a star from (Lt.) Gen. John Dallager, and we agreed with that," Tiller Fowler said. ...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- Panel blames AFA leadership for scandal/ 21 recommendations include
- WASHINGTON - A congressional oversight panel issued a blistering report Monday, saying the Air Force Academy's sex-assault scandal resulted from "leadership failure." The panel issued 21 recommendations and called for further investigation of officers responsible, including generals, by the Defense Department Inspector General's Office. Time and...
- Research articles 2003-09-23
- Panel: Issues remain before shuttle can fly
- HOUSTON -- Five weeks before NASA wants to return the space shuttle to orbit, the agency has not yet completed some major tasks that are prerequisites for launching the spacecraft, an independent oversight panel said Wednesday. NASA hasn't finished analyzing how much debris might fall off the shuttle's fuel...
- Research articles 2005-06-09
- Andersen Must Split Its Auditing, Consulting Practices, Oversight Panel Says.
- By Delroy Alexander, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 12--The embattled Andersen accounting firm must separate its auditing and consulting practices, according to the head of an independent oversight board set up to recommend changes to the Chicago-based firm's ...
- Research articles 2002-03-12
- House judicial oversight panel takes up legal practice issues.
- Three bills passed last month by the House Judicial Oversight Committee are on track to change certain aspects of the way courts and attorneys operate. HB 205, sponsored by Rep. Ken Sorensen, R-Tavernier, and HB 502, by Rep. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, would directly...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Amtraks Board Chairman, Gov. Thompson, Testifies Before Congressional Oversight Panel
- At an oversight hearing today before the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, Amtraks Chairman of the Board, Gov. Tommy Thompson, testified to the corporations progress toward freeing itself from federal operating support. The Subcommittee is chaired by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
- KOREA'S PUBLIC FUND OVERSIGHT PANEL TO DECIDE ON CHB SALE THURSDAY.
- SEOUL, Jan 22 Asia Pulse - The Public Fund Oversight Committee is expected to choose the new owner of Chohung Bank CHB (KSE:00010) during its second general meeting Thursday, sources at the Ministry of Finance and Economy MOFE said yesterday. The sources said that though there were some...
- Research articles 2003-01-22
- Accounting Oversight Panel Elects TIAA-CREF CEO John H. Biggs as New Board Member
- Business Editors STAMFORD, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 22, 2001 The Public Oversight Board, the self-regulatory body which oversees accounting firms that audit the financial statements of public corporations, announced today it has elected John H. Biggs, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF, as a member of the Board....
- Research articles 2001-05-22
- Congress to Probe Compensation at AIG, Others
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress will soon probe executive compensation at companies such as American International Group Inc AIG and Bank of America BAC Corp receiving significant taxpayer funds, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform panel said on Wednesday. Treasury's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, will testify in two...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Quarter in U.S. Foreclosure Plan Late on Payments
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than one-quarter of homeowners receiving help under a U.S. government foreclosure prevention plan are behind on their new mortgage payments, a Treasury Department survey has found.Some 650,000 borrowers are participating in the trial phase of the Obama administration's Home Affordable Modification Program, a $75 billion taxpayer-financed...
- News items 2009-12-16
- Independent Sector Convenes National Panel on Nonprofit Sector; Senate Committee Invites Sector-Wide Input to Improve Governance
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- INDEPENDENT SECTOR today announced the creation of a national panel that will make recommendations to Congress to improve the oversight and governance of charitable organizations. IS formed the "Panel on the NonWASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- INDEPENDENT SECTOR today announced the creation of...
- Research articles 2004-10-13
- OSHA Bill Eases US Oversight
- A PANEL OF THE HOUSE Education and Workforce Committee has approved a measure that would allow businesses to work with states to ease oversight by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The legislation was sent to the full comm A PANEL OF...
- Research articles 1998-02-16
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