Year: 1951
Type: article
Abstract: M. NFLSON McGEARYt ' "Congressional investigations," as used in this paper, are inquiries that are conducted, in pursuance of a resolution or statute, by congressional committees or subcommittees.Both standing and select committees are employed.2 2 Annals Cong.49o (1792).3Potts, Power of Legislative Bodies To Punish for Contempt, 74 U. of Pa.L. Rev. 691, 708 et seq.(1926).4 No writer has made a complete tabulation of investigations to date.Dimock, however, found 330 concluded between 1792 and 1928.From 1929 to 1938, 146 more were authorized.Dimock, Congressional Investigating Committees (1929); McGeary, The Developments of
DOI: 10.2307/1597767
Author: M. Nelson McGeary
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4253591817