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The Incurious Inquirers
Schwartz, Bernard | March 14, 1959 issue

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On February 19, 1959, U.S. Representative Oren Harris announced the reconstitution in the 86th U.S. Congress of the Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, which was responsible for so many newspaper headlines during the last Congressional session. Thus, there begins a new chapter in the strange and spectacular career of the body that has been well characterized as one Congressional investigating committee that tried hard not to succeed. Now that the Harris committee has been given a new lease on life, it is appropriate to bring its balance sheet up to date.

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UNITED States. Congress; LEGISLATIVE oversight; LEGISLATIVE power; GOVERNMENTAL investigations; LEGISLATIVE auditing; SEPARATION of powers
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