Congress writes laws but rarely follows up on how they are implemented. When things inevitably go wrong, it passes the buck ...

Congressional Democrats are grappling with how to conduct oversight of the Trump administration after some colleagues were ...

The race for the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee opened up old wounds within the Democratic coalition, ...

U.S. Rep Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, has denounced the Department of Homeland Security's limiting of surprise visit of ...

Congressional representatives have the right to make surprise oversight visits at ICE detains immigrants prior to deportation. This right is upheld in the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2024.

Republicans have suffered a setback over their plans to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in President Donald ...

Congress 'standing up for itself' Trump's takeover bid is the "latest example of executive overreach into the realm of congressional power," said the Project on Government Oversight.

The center's director, former state Rep. Jim Townsend, D-Royal Oak, spoke to The Detroit News about the future of fact-based congressional oversight in a highly polarized Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate bill that would require congressional approval for new tariffs gained more Republican support on Friday, on the second day of a stock market rout ...

More US Senate Republicans Voice Support for Congressional Oversight on Tariffs By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate bill that would require congressional approval for new tariffs ...

But that is just one example of how Congress, under unified Republican control, is proactively relinquishing some of its fundamental and critical authority on oversight, economic issues and more.

This makes congressional oversight even more essential—yet it remains conspicuously absent. To understand why Congress has abdicated its role, we need to shift our focus from individual ...