11.   Achieve Inc., another organization, has been working with states to create common test standards, without any federal oversight.

12.   All this would change if Republicans in Congress pass pending legislation to institute block grants that would virtually eliminate federal oversight of welfare programs through this waiver system.

13.   Bush and the Republican leadership pushed an alternative security bill that would place private security companies that now handle the job under expanded federal oversight.

14.   Bush and the Republican leadership pushed an alliterative security bill that would place private security companies that now handle the job under expanded federal oversight.

15.   Bush requested the federal oversight to better coordinate the flow of information, said spokeswoman Katie Baur, not to muzzle local officials.

16.   But does America need more departments, White House offices and federal oversight?

17.   But federal oversight has been costly.

18.   But many critics of the younger Hoffa assert that he has ties to a corrupt old guard, and they question his motives for wanting to end federal oversight.

19.   But Ms. Browner can pressure the states if she wants to, tightening federal oversight and denying vital grant money to states that fail.

20.   Coleman responded by saying none of the testimony had been sufficient to show that abuses were prevalent or frequent enough to warrant continued federal oversight.