Legislative Oversight Involves

question 154

Multiple Choice

Legislative oversight involves

• A) maintaining control over expenditures by congressional staff.
• B) keeping an eye on how the executive branch carries out the provisions of congressional statutes.
• C) regulating the activities of lobbyists and political action committees (PACs).
• D) establishing procedures for implementation of congressional codes of conduct.
• E) voting on congressional rules and procedures.

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Definitions:

Ice

Water frozen into a solid state, which can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities.

River Terraces

Step-like landforms alongside rivers, formed by the erosion of sediments and changes in water level.

River Terraces

Step-like landforms found alongside river valleys, created as a river cuts downward into its bed while leaving remnant levels of previous floodplain as terraces.

Distributaries

Branches of a river or stream that diverge from the main channel and flow separately into the sea or another body of water.