1.   Audit committees oversee corporate accounting practices and compensation committees rule on issues of executive pay.

2.   Additionally, the district backed away from its promise to have a blue-ribbon committee oversee bond spending.

3.   Hatch said because his committee oversees the Justice Department, he has a responsibility to monitor antitrust issues.

4.   His committee oversaw foreign investment, humanitarian aid, and relations with the diplomatic community.

5.   It said that all complaints by prisoners were investigated by the military police, and that interrogation centers were overseen by committees headed by military judges.

6.   Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., whose committee oversees health nominees, pledged to hold hearings promptly, the Associated Press reported.

7.   That committee oversees the administration of sanctions on Iraq.

8.   The committee is overseeing the search for a new department chairman and the first of perhaps a half-dozen new professors to replace the ones who have left.

9.   The committee oversees funding for the Forest Service and Interior Department, including the Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.

10.   The committee oversees the U.S. Customs Service, which Kolbe termed of vital interest to his southern Arizona constituents.