>There's often mention of US "Oversight Committees"
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>I assume these are in order to oversee a process to ensure it's done properly (I've never heard the expression applied in British politics).
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>But it sounds to me like a committee of forgetful old fuddy-duddies:
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>"Oh forgive me for not having done such-and-such; it was an oversight on my part" :-)
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>One for your English section, Dragan.

OK, now I've added it to my ambiguity page. I had to manually merge the entries from the text file on the laptop.