In June 1999, the state attorney general appointed a monitor to oversee her office's investigations and spending.

The last time, in 1984, the state imposed an Emergency Financial Control Board on the city to oversee spending.

It was as chairman of a Senate subcommittee overseeing spending for the space agency that he flew in April 1985 aboard the shuttle Discovery.

The Secretary is one of the central positions within the State government as it is responsible for overseeing government-wide spending and public debt management.

But the Congressional committees that oversee military spending distrust that approach, since producing complex weapons in small quantities is a sure recipe for inflated prices.

The Appropriations Committee oversees military spending.

The firm has been getting more federal military-related business in recent years, and Mr. Cunningham is on a subcommittee that oversees military spending.

It responsibilities include overseeing economic policy, public investments and spending.

The Commission is supposed to enforce the rules and oversee spending.

It also systematically blocked proposals to have Congressional auditors oversee spending, or to impose severe penalties for fraud.