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| legislative oversight definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | congress' monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly through hearings | 5 sets | |
| 2 | the power of congress to oversee how laws are carried out | 4 sets | |
| 3 | ongoing process of congressional monitoring of the executive branch to ensure that the latter complies with the law | 3 sets | |
| 4 | congress' monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly through hearings. | 3 sets | |
| 5 | congress's monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly through hearings | 2 sets | |
| 6 | congress' monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly though hearings. | 2 sets | |
| 7 | a continuing review by congress of how effectively the executive branch carries out the laws congress passes | 2 sets | |
| 8 | overseeing how laws are carried out | 1 set | |
| 9 | congressional review of activities of an agency, department, or office, watchdog duty, makes sure that federal agencies are doing their job | 1 set | |
| 10 | one of congress's most important tasks, the investigation and evaluation of the performance of corresponding executive agencies and departments to check the power of the executive branch | 1 set | |
| 11 | one of congress's most important tasks... in order to check the power of the executive branch, congressional committees investigate and evaluate the performance of corresponding executive agencies and departments. | 1 set | |
| 12 | congress's monitoring of the burequcracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly though hearings | 1 set | |
| 13 | congress's monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, perfprmed mainly through hearings. | 1 set | |
| 14 | the review of a law executed by the excecutive branch | 1 set | |
| 15 | congress' monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mianly through hearings | 1 set | |
| 16 | involves a continuing review of how effectively the excutive branch carries out the laws congress passes | 1 set | |
| 17 | the general term for how congress checks the effectiveness of the executive branch in administering laws passed by congerss. | 1 set | |
| 18 | in some ways. congress can exercise more control over the executive branch than the president, congress must make sure that programs are being administered as they had intended and that money is being spent wisely | 1 set | |
| 19 | hg | 1 set | |
| 20 | review of executive branch programs by lawmakers | 1 set | |
| 21 | congress creates and can eliminate administrative agencies, or can re-assign certain powers from one agency to another, or expand or restrict powers delegated to an agency. legislative veto, process by where house or senate could veto agency regulations, was used for a time, but ended with ins v. chada, 462 u.s. 919 (1983), when s. ct. decided veto was legislative act, and needed to be approved by both house and senate and signed by president to be effective. statutes enacted overriding agency rules could be enacted. congress can limit appropriations, and retains some control over personnel through approval of senate for some appointments. | 1 set | |
| 22 | one of congress’s most important tasks. in order to check the power of the executive branch, congressional committees investigate and evaluate the performance of corresponding executive agencies and departments. | 1 set | |
| 23 | one of congress's most importat tasks, the investigation and evaluation of the performance of corresponding executive agencies and departments to check the power of the executive branch | 1 set | |
| 24 | a continuing review by congress of how effectively the executive branch carries out the laws congress passes. | 1 set | |
| 25 | congress monitoring bureacracy and its administration of policy, performed at hearings | 1 set | |
| 26 | the process thru which the legislature evaluates the implementation of public policy by executive branch agencies | 1 set | |
| 27 | the process of monitoring the bureaucracy and its administration of policy | 1 set | |
| 28 | a committee’s investigation of government agencies to ensure they are acting as congress intends | 1 set | |
| 29 | congress's monitoring of the bureaucracy and it's administration of policy, performed mainly through hearings. | 1 set | |
| 30 | congress's monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, performed mainly thorugh hearings | 1 set | |