oversight committee
Accountability monitoring group
An oversight committee is a group within a legislature or organization responsible for monitoring and reviewing the activities of government agencies, programs, or officials.
Congressional oversight committees investigate executive branch conduct, review spending, and hold hearings: The oversight committee subpoenaed documents from the agency.
The term implies authority to scrutinize and hold accountable.
- subcommitteeSubset of larger panel
- whistleblowingExposing hidden wrongdoing internally
- transparencyState of being see-through
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
- congressional hearingOfficial governmental fact-finding session
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- governing bodiesgoverning body, governing council, senate, board of directors, parliament
- government bodiesagency, bureau, legislature, department, ministry
- organizational unitsdepartment, division, branch, unit, section
- Congresssenator, representative, senators, House, bill
- committeesspecial committees, joint committees, subcommittees, subcommittee, ad hoc committees
- hearingscongressional hearing, congressional hearings, confirmation hearing, public hearings, impeachment hearings