Number: RL32113
Title: Congressional Intervention in the Administrative Process: Legal and Ethical Considerations
Authors: Morton Rosenberg and Jack H. Maskell, American Law Division 
Abstract: When congressional committees engage in oversight of the administrative bureaucracy, or when Members of Congress intervene in agency proceedings on behalf of private constituents or other private entities with interests affecting the Members constituency, such interventions involve varying degrees of intrusion into agency decisionmaking processes. This report examines the currently applicable legal and ethical considerations and standards that mark the limits of such intercessions.
Pages: 84
Date: Updated September 25, 2003