Congressional Oversight
- Congressional oversight : methods and techniques
- prepared for the Subcommittee on Oversight Procedures of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, and the General Accounting Office, July 1976.
2000 - Congressional Oversight: Challenges for the 21st Century
- Statement of David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States,
- Before the Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate
Government and Finance Division
The Government and Finance division is responsible for meeting the analytic and research needs of Congress on matters relating to government operations and oversight, intergovernmental relations, congressional organization and procedures, public finance, financial regulation, and macroeconomic policy.
- Issue areas related to government include the operations and history of Congress; the legislative process; the congressional budget and appropriations processes; federal executive and judicial branch organization and management; government personnel; government
information policy; statehood, territories and the District of Columbia; disaster assistance and homeland security; census and reapportionment; elections and political parties; lobbying; and constitutional amendments and history. Issue areas related to finance and economics include financial institutions and market structure; financial markets and securities regulation; insurance; consumer finance, including banking, credit reporting, and financial privacy; government-sponsored enterprises and housing finance; debt and taxation; economic development; international finance, including foreign exchange and financial flows; monetary and fiscal policy; and macroeconomic conditions and indicators, such as gross domestic product, price indexes, and saving.
Knowledge Services Group
- The Knowledge Services Group (KSG) is comprised of information research professionals who partner with CRS analysts and attorneys in providing authoritative and reliable information research and policy analysis to the Congress.