Activity #1: Non-Legislative (non law-making) Powers of Congress
Watch the following video over Legislative Oversight and answer the questions in your notebooks...
- What are Congressional Committees and what do they do (This not in the video)?
- What is Legislative Oversight?
- How does Congress exercise oversight on the Executive Branch? In other words, what can Congress actually do to the Executive Branch after investigating the President and the Bureaucracy's actions?
Activity #2: Claim and Reasoning...
Make a claim that answers the following prompt and provide evidence, examples, or reasoning to support you claim...
Prompt:
Explain why Congress is the branch with the most responsibility for controlling our government from becoming too powerful...
