CSPAN Q A May 26, 2014
Everyone thinks of congress as passing laws, the budget, create a new law am appropriate new money. If you look at the history of congress, oversight is viewed from the beginning as a dual and almost as important a function. Oversight is how we see how the money is being spent. If you look back, the history goes back to george washington. The first oversight action is by one of the first congresses. It is when, i cannot remember the general, but almost the entire u. S. Army is eliminated in indiana by an attack by indians, and congress, the first or second congress, sends a letter to his excel...