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Explore the crucial role of Congressional Oversight in monitoring agencies' functions and spending, ensuring accountability and efficiency in governance. Learn about the power to approve, eliminate, and allocate funds, as well as the implications for bureaucracy and political influence.
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Congressional Oversight Raira Ank Melea Anderson Diana Mendez Austin Amandolia
Congressional Approval • No agency may exist without approval • Has ability to eliminate agencies that don’t function according to its rules
Purse Strings • Agency can’t spend money authorization from Congress • Can authorize spending on yearly pr permanent basis • Without authorization, an agency will go out of business
Appropriations • No money can be spent unless Congress approves an appropriation • Appropriation hearing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CNVh9OQVUk
Bureaucracies don’t want oversight • Allows non-competitive bids to be awarded to the companies • Companies are said to have the “Politicians in their pockets”
Oversight of Politicians? • Oversight of the bureaucracy indirectly becomes the oversight of the Politicians • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100425100910AAbEZ0R