1. By John Tummino

3.  YES, Congress is effective in providing oversight of the bureaucracy.  NO, Congress is not effective in providing oversight of the bureaucracy.

4.  “Supervision: management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group”  Taken from wordnetweb.princeton.edu

5.  YES  Budget control, reauthorization of agencies, setting guidelines for new agencies, committee hearings, power to organize/reorganize agency, “sunset” overview (fed. agencies must justify their existence to taxpayers and Congress or face elimination), Congressional support agencies (CBO), iron triangles (Congress + bureaucracy + interest groups), and influence over selection of leadership

6.  NO  Political ramifications, oversight is intensive labor, lack of technical expertise, logrolling, lack of budget control, enabling legislation is vague, interests groups encourage Congress to overlook effective administration, failure to use powers, iron triangle, firing administrators is difficult