Sununu was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on the Congressional Oversight Panel ( COP ) for the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, whose purpose is to assess how the TARP program is working, in order to help Congress determine whether to continue injecting capital into the financial sector.

Since 2011, McHenry has been Chairman of the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services, and Bailouts of Private and Public Programs on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

President Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren, former Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP have said that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was a significant cause of the current global financial crisis, on the grounds that it opened up the door for the financial sector to form so-called too big to fail financial services giants like AIG.

A recent example is the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ), signed into law by U. S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 to provide a Government bailout for many financial and non-financial institutions who speculated in high-risk financial instruments during the housing boom condemned by a 2005 story in The Economist titled " The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history ".

Under threat of a subpoena by Senator Chuck Grassley, Goldman Sachs revealed that through TARP bailout of AIG, Goldman received $ 12. 9 billion in taxpayer aid ( some through AIG ), $ 4. 3 billion of which was then paid out to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions.

He was a prominent supporter of the TARP bailout legislation, declaring that he would give up his seat by voting for the bill, which he believed to be essential to avoid a second Great Depression.

Congressman Sherman “ led the House revolt " against the original $ 700 billion bailout plan, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ).

Shortly after Congress approved the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Foxx identified a provision in the law that allowed her to force consideration of a measure to deny the second, $ 350 billion, tranche of the TARP bailout.

Butterfield voted in 2008 against the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) $ 700 billion bailout of the financial industry and the $ 14 billion rescue package for the auto industry.

Initially, banks received part of a $ 700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program ( TARP ) intended to stabilize the economy and thaw the frozen credit markets.

* GAO Report: Increased Use of Alaska Native 8 ( a ) Firms Calls for Increased Oversight

* Project for Government Oversight Report on SAIC-Lobbying records and lists of ex-government SAIC employees.

* Investigation Into the White House and Department of Justice on Security of FBI Background Investigation Files – Interim Report – ... by the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight September 1996

Per the 2005 School Report Card issued by the Education Oversight Board, the high school had 12 teachers teaching a student body consisting of 88 % American Indian and 12 % White with a graduation rate of 88. 2 %.

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight released a report on September 20, 2004, alleging widespread accounting errors.

Early in 1993 a group supported by funds from project contractors organized a public relations campaign to lobby Congress directly, but in June, the non-profit Project on Government Oversight released a draft audit report by the Department of Energy's Inspector General heavily criticizing the Super Collider for its high costs and poor management by officials in charge of it.

* canceled the order requiring the Archivist to create a “ government wide database of information that has been declassified ,” and instead requires the “ Director of the Information Security Oversight Office ... coordinate the linkage and effective utilization of existing agency databases of records that have been declassified and publicly released ”; and

The Project on Government Oversight ( POGO ) released a report on May 13, 2011 which found that between 2006 and 2010, 219 former SEC employees sought to represent clients before the SEC.

* The Oversight Board is an external board of five people appointed by the Minister of Education ( one member is appointed at the suggestion of the University Council ).

The federal judiciary is composed of the Higher Judicial Council, the Supreme Court, the Court of Cassation, the Public Prosecution Department, the Judiciary Oversight Commission, and other federal courts that are regulated by law.

* An Investigation by the Joint Legislative Task Force on Government Oversight into Racial Profiling Practices by the California Highway Patrol as part of a program known as Operation Pipeline

The application was submitted to the Oversight Committee but was rejected by one member, Kor, due to the elitist views of the legendary Klingon warrior regarding the honor and prestige of the " great houses ".

The incident, which was first made public by the Project on Government Oversight, was the fourth misstep involving the handling of America's nuclear weapons in the past year.

A report by the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform alleged that Chao and other White House officials campaigned for Republican candidates at taxpayer expense.

Oversight of MSNBC is now provided by Phil Griffin, a senior vice president at NBC.

* Architectural Oversight: The IAB provides oversight of, and occasional commentary on, aspects of the architecture for the network protocols and procedures used by the Internet.

* January 2006: EPIC filed suit in federal court against the Justice Department for reports of possible misconduct submitted by the FBI to the Intelligence Oversight Board.

In the US, audits of publicly traded companies are governed by rules laid down by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ( PCAOB ), which was established by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

This emphasis on the internal control environment is now a mandatory part of the audit of SEC-listed companies, under the auditing standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ( PCAOB ) set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Oversight is provided by the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives, comprising the speakers for the parties in the House.

The 86th Congress, by then in its first session, quickly saw the political opportunity the scandals offered ; in October 1959, the House Committee on Legislative Oversight, under Representative Oren Harris's chairmanship, began to hold hearings investigating the scandal.

A research survey by Texas's Research and Oversight Council on Workers ’ Compensation found that 68 % on non-subscribing employers and 60 % of subscribing employers – a majority in both cases – were satisfied with their experiences in the system, and that satisfaction with nonsubscription increased with the size of the firm ; but it stated that further research was needed to gauge satisfaction among employees and to determine the adequacy of compensation under nonsubscription compared to subscription.

A 2005 bill to renew the split was tabled by the legislature's MARTA Oversight Committee, forcing MARTA to pass a new budget with cuts in service.

A 1986 review of the previous year's records by MARTA's audit office and the state legislature's MARTA Oversight Committee ( MARTOC ) showed no deliberate underreporting of crime, but rather over-reporting of crime because MARTA included crimes not related to the rail line and did not adhere to the Uniform Crime Reporting system ( reporting multiple crimes by the same person instead of only the most serious crime ).

" The conforming loan limit for Fannie Mae, along with Freddie Mac, is set by Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight ( OFHEO ), the regulator of both GSEs.

* In April 2008, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing on formaledehyde exposures in trailers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) provided as temporary housing to people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School faculty member and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U. S. banking bailout during the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis, received her B. S.

* Congressional Oversight Com.

According to the website, this taskforce " The Task Force on Oversight and Regulatory Review is responsible for taking a look at the nearly 8, 000 regulations issued annually by the federal government and for analyzing these new rules to ensure Congressional intent is appropriately followed.

In late 1994, following the 1994 Congressional elections which switched Congress from Democratic to Republican control, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, chaired by Pennsylvania Republican William Clinger, launched an investigation into the White House Travel Office firings.

The Congressional investigation continued ; on March 21, 1996, Hillary Clinton submitted a deposition under oath to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, again acknowledging concern about irregularities in the Travel Office but denying a direct role in the firings and expressing a lack of recollection to a number of questions.