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Oversight
The watchdog function of Congress is designed to keep watch on the executive agencies
the cabinet and the other agencies
Congressional oversight refers to the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs, activities, and policy implementation of the Executive branch and other federal agencies.
Congressional oversight refers to the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs, activities, and policy implementation of the Executive branch and other federal agencies.
auditing the financial expenditures of the executive branch and federal agencies
The executive is one of the departments of government that is designed in law matters. The function of the executive can be a head of state, foreign minister, and head of government, justice minister or defense minister.
Policing function.
Congress has the power of legislative oversight, which allows it to check on how the executive branch is administering the law. Executive, legislative, and judicial are the three branches of the U.S. government.
Example of an executive agencies are: Selective Service System, National Science Foundation (NSF), General Services Administration(GSA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA).
Through the power vested in it by laws passed by the legislative branch, and performed by any number of agencies, authorities and orgainizations established to carry out these laws.
Damage to the frontal lobe in the brain can cause loss of executive function. Executive function is a persons ability to plan things or foresight.
In many ways, administrative agencies function independently of the rest of the government.