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Rev. David Short answers questions on the Anglican Realignment and St. John's church in the Diocese of New Westminster
In which John (and many nerdfighters) forget to use the cognitive surplus to do make a lot of awesome for Hank on his birthday. Your ideas (and bday wishes) are needed! Info on Hank and John and Maureen's visit to Grand Rapids: http://eventful.com/events/grandrapids/john-green-hank-green-and-maureen-johnso-/E0-001-011526346-9 Ask us to come to your city at Eventful: http://eventful.com/performers/john-and-hank-green-/P0-001-000130366-6 Some people did remember Hank's bday: http://youtube.com/watch?v=R08oE-RtI7E http://youtube.com/watch?v=h3mkKtofOIE http://youtube.com/watch?v=az0AUb_WVhg http://youtube.com/watch?v=-XOXhqKGkSw
Susan Collins was missing in action on Iraq Oversight as Chair of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, leaving tax payers and the troops holding the bag.
On December 19th, Henry Paulson urged Congress to release the second half of the $700 billion of the bailout money. But no one seems know what banks have done with the first $350 billion. Despite the fact that Congress wrote more than one hundred pages about oversight in the bailout bill, they left a gaping hole.
"There's really nothing illegal about it" is a phrase often heard in descriptions of the practice of shorting, or short-selling, which are essentially bets that a stock price will decline. But after some market watchers accused short-sellers of unfairly depressing the stock prices of several key financial institutions, the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed new rules. Wharton finance professors Marshall Blume and Franklin Allen suggest the impact will be minimal.
October 23, 2008 Congressional Oversight Hearings Sarbanes (D-MD) The 3 Blind Mice on the panel: Greenspan Snow (Former US Treasury) Christopher Cox (Former SEC)
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Federal Communications Commission Oversight Hearing -- December 14
A Congressional committee on September 24, 2008 scrutinized the anti-worker policies of the National Mediation Board (NMB), the federal agency charged to protect workers rights in the U.S. transportation industry. Patricia Friend, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) International President, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure along with the NMBs three-member panel. For years, the NMB has established a series of onerous rules that have made it difficult for workers to organize in the aviation industry, stated Friend. A clear message needs to be sent to the NMB that they can no longer be a party in corporate Americas efforts to usurp the stated policy and precedent of Congress to encourage unionization and collective bargaining. The hearing carries particular urgency as the future of the collective bargaining rights for the vast majority of employees at Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines is threatened by the pending merger between the two carriers. Since Northwest flight attendants are members of AFA-CWA and Delta is not represented, an election must be called to determine union representation. However, under current NMB guidelines, over 50 percent of the combined 21,000 flight attendants must participate in the election in order for it to be valid. If less than 50 percent participate, the entire vote will be voided and Northwest flight attendants will lose over 60 years of collective bargaining rights. In a Delta flight attendant election earlier this year for AFA-CWA representation, the NMB turned a blind eye to egregious union busting behavior by management. Some of the NMBs improper behavior throughout the election included changing the election date, keeping over 1,700 furloughed flight attendants and soon-to-be-retired flight attendants on the eligibility list, and failing to remove a deceased flight attendant from the eligibility list. The NMB also has yet to respond to interference charges filed by AFA-CWA over four months ago.
Kaitlyn Lasitter, the 14-year-old Louisville girl whose feet were severed when a cable snapped on a ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom last summer, is speaking for the first time in front of TV cameras.
Rep. George Miller, chairman of the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, makes an opening statement at a committee hearing on unethical practices and conflicts of interest in the student loan industry and federal Reading First program on May 10, 2007.
In this scene from "Nanotechnology & the Consumer," David Rejeski provides an assessment of the current state of government oversight of engineered nanoparticles in consumer products. From the "Talking Nano" 6-DVD set. talkingnano.net
You are losing your war on secrecy CAS. Children are not your meal ticket. The days of the "predatory professional" and this rogue and criminal agency are coming to an end. Better start altering those documents now and covering your tracks. You know who you are.
Larry Elder of KABC playing a segment of a recent Becky Quick CNBC interview with Warren Buffett. Subject: OFHEO and housing finance oversight. Our tax dollars at work. About as competent as "You are doing one heck of a job" Brown of FEMA ...
Congressman Robert Wexler Presses FBI Director Robert Mueller on Torture oversight.
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "Oversight of Defense Department Acquisitions." The hearing will examine the recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled, "Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs" (pdf). This report found that the Defense Department's 95 major weapons acquisition programs currently exceed their original budgets by nearly $300 billion dollars and are, on average, 21 months late in delivering these weapons systems to warfighters. Chairman Henry Waxman gives opening remarks, focusing on a case study of the Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), which after an investment of $1.2 billion in development is now being scrapped and begun again after failure of the design. The new contract has been given to the same company.
Federal Communications Commission Oversight Hearing -- December 13 2007
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year-! May the SON shine on everybody-!
Commander Courage is called before a top level UN panel to answer for some of the "highly questionable" command decisions he's made over the past few months. Spiral Zone (1987)
President-elect Obama met with advisers and introduced a comittee for economic oversight and transparency on January 6, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
The Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization held its first hearing in Clark County, NV on December 16th, 2008.
In this video, Chair Elizabeth Warren introduces the first report of the Congressional Oversight Panel for Economic Stabilization, established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.