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Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments

Description: This report discusses the background of claims of executive privilege, a right to preserve the confidentiality of information and documents in the face of legislative demands, ending with a look into how President George W. Bush has used them.
Date: August 21, 2008
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Investigations of the Department of Justice, 1920-2007: History, Law, and Practice

Description: This report discusses the legislative oversight that is most commonly conducted through congressional budget, authorization, appropriations, confirmation, and investigative processes, and, in rare instances, through impeachment.
Date: August 20, 2008
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congress’s Contempt Power: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure

Description: This report examines the source of the contempt power, reviews the historical development of the early case law, outlines the statutory and common law basis for Congress's contempt power, and analyzes the procedures associated with each of the three different types of proceedings.
Date: April 15, 2008
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton & Tatelman, Todd B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congress’s Contempt Power: A Sketch

Description: This report outlines the source of the contempt power, reviews major developments in the case law, and analyzes the procedures associated with each of the three different types of contempt proceedings.
Date: August 1, 2007
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton & Tatelman, Todd B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congress’s Contempt Power: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure

Description: This report examines the source of the contempt power, reviews the historical development of the early case law, outlines the statutory and common law basis for Congress's contempt power, and analyzes the procedures associated with each of the three different types of contempt proceedings. In addition, the report discusses limitations both unconstitutional and constitutionally based on the power.
Date: July 24, 2007
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton & Tatelman, Todd B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Oversight Manual

Description: This report provides information about the Congressional Oversight Manual. Congressional Oversight of the executive is designed to fulfill a number of purposes like ensuring executive compliance with legislative intent etc.
Date: May 1, 2007
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.; Oleszek, Walter J.; Tatelman, Todd B.; Halstead, T. J. & Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Oversight Manual

Description: This report provides information about the Congressional Oversight Manual. Congressional Oversight of the executive is designed to fulfill a number of purposes like ensuring executive compliance with legislative intent etc.
Date: January 3, 2007
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.; Oleszek, Walter J.; Tatelman, Todd B.; Halstead, T. J. & Rosenberg, Morton
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Oversight of Judges and Justices

Description: This report addresses Congress’ oversight authority over individual federal judges or Supreme Court Justices. Congressional oversight authority, although broad, is limited to subjects related to the exercise of legitimate congressional power. First the report addresses the general powers and limitations on Congress’ oversight authority. Second, the report examines the Senate approval process for the nominations of individual judges or Justices, and the Senate’s ability to obtain information on … more
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Bazan, Elizabeth B. & Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Oversight Manual

Description: Throughout its history, Congress has engaged in oversight of the executive branch — the review, monitoring, and supervision of the implementation of public policy. The first several Congresses inaugurated such important oversight techniques as special investigations, reporting requirements, resolutions of inquiry, and use of the appropriations process to review executive activity. Contemporary developments, moreover, have increased the legislature’s capacity and capabilities to check on and che… more
Date: October 21, 2004
Creator: Fisher, Louis; Kaiser, Frederick M.; Oleszek, Walter J. & Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Intervention in the Administrative Process: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Description: This report briefly examines the currently applicable legal and ethical considerations and standards that mark the limits of interventions by Members of Congress. It reviews the judicial development and application of standards for determining whether congressional pressure or influence will be deemed to have tainted an agency proceeding. It concludes that the courts, in balancing Congress's performance of its constitutional and statutory obligations to oversee the actions of agency officials a… more
Date: September 25, 2003
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton & Maskell, Jack H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking: An Update and Assessment After Nullification of OSHA's Ergonomics Standard

Description: This report will provide a brief explanation of how the review scheme was expected to operate and describe how it has in fact been utilized. The possible reasons for the limited use of the review scheme thus far are assessed and congressional remedial proposals and other options are discussed.
Date: January 6, 2003
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking: An Assessment After Nullification of OSHA's Ergonomics Standard

Description: This report will provide a brief explanation of how the review scheme was expected to operate and describe how it has in fact been utilized. The possible reasons for the limited use of the formal review mechanism thus far are assessed and congressional remedial proposals and other options are discussed.
Date: September 16, 2002
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking: A Brief Overview and Assessment After Five Years

Description: This report will provide a brief explanation of how the review scheme was expected to operate and describe how it has in fact been utilized. The possible reasons for the limited use of the formal review mechanism thus far are assessed and congressional remedial proposals and other options are discussed.
Date: March 6, 2001
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments

Description: Presidential claims of a right to preserve the confidentiality of information and documents in the face of legislative demands have figured prominently, though intermittently, in executive-congressional relations since at least 1792, when the president Washington discussed with his cabinet how to respond to a congressional inquiry into the military debacle that befell General St. Clair's expedition. Few such interbranch disputes over access to information have reached the courts for substantive… more
Date: September 21, 1999
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigative Oversight: An Introduction to the Law, Practice and Procedure of Congressional Inquiry

Description: This report will provide an overview of some of the more common legal, procedural and practical issues, questions, and problems that committees have faced in the course of an investigation. Following a summary of the case law developing the scope and limitations of the power of inquiry, the essential tools of investigative oversight--subpoenas, staff interviews and depositions, grants of immunity, and the contempt power -- are described. Next, some of the special problems of investigating the e… more
Date: April 7, 1995
Creator: Rosenberg, Morton
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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