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This 3 page paper discusses the concept of Congressional oversight and whether it helps in utilization of government resources, if it is micromanaging, and if it applies at the state level. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Congress and Federal Agencies
Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction The U.S. government is a vast and complex bureaucracy that somehow manages to
creak along with a fair degree of efficiency. This paper answers three questions pertaining to the relationship between Congress and other federal agencies. Discussion Congress is the legislative branch of
government while the various federal agencies are tasked with carrying out the laws and programs created by Congress. That is, if Congress passes a new law about airport screenings, it
will be up to the Department of Homeland Security to figure out how to put it into practice. The relationship between Congress and various federal agencies is thus fairly close.
However, in order to keep things on track, each agency has a Congressional oversight committee, and there can be some friction. Do conflicts between Congress and various federal agencies result
in better utilization of government resources? Yes, because the conflicts force each party to consider alternative solutions to problems that might not have occurred if there were no oversight. If
a Congressional committee suggests that there isnt enough money for a proposed solution for some problem, then the agency is forced to think about it again, perhaps in a different
way, in order to achieve its goals. This presupposes, of course, that the oversight committee and the agency are both genuinely making good faith efforts to find solutions, and not
that one or both sides are indulging in political posturing for future political advantage. But if they are both working for a better outcome, then conflict is a good method.
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