A major function of Congress is to oversee the administration of policies. Therefore is called legislative oversight. Oversight is not a highly visible or constituted-oriented function, it is something that congressional committees have focused on in recent decades. While congress doesn't exactly want to do this type of work because it is complicated and not widely publicized, growing constitute complaints and exposed policy failures by the media have forced this rule.
Oversight allows congress to determine the success of failure of legislative policies. For several years oversight was th…
