Committee Controls of Agency Decisions

Fisher, Louis

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Congress;    Congressional-executive relations;    Congressional committee jurisdiction;    Executive departments;   

RP-ID  :  RL33151
RP-ID  :  RL33151 2005-11-16

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Congress has a long history of subjecting certain types of executive agency decisions to committee control, either by committees or subcommittees. Especially with the beginning of World War II, the executive branch agreed to committee controls as an accommodation that allowed Congress to delegate authority and funds broadly while using committees to monitor the use of that discretionary authority. These committee-agency arrangements took the form of different procedures: simply notifying the committee, obtaining committee approval, "coming into agreement" understandings, and using the congressional distinction between authorization and appropriation to exercise committee controls. This report explains how and why committee vetoes originated, the constitutional objections raised by the executive branch, the Court’s decision in Chadha, and the continuation of committee review procedures since that time.