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Congressional Oversight

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

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Congressional Oversight

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  1. Congressional Oversight Raira Ank Melea Anderson Diana Mendez Austin Amandolia

  2. Congressional Approval • No agency may exist without approval • Has ability to eliminate agencies that don’t function according to its rules

  3. 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

  4. Appropriations • No money can be spent unless Congress approves an appropriation • Appropriation hearing • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CNVh9OQVUk

  5. 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”

  6. Oversight of Politicians? • Oversight of the bureaucracy indirectly becomes the oversight of the Politicians • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100425100910AAbEZ0R

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