What are the two major types of oversight Congress can engage in to ensure a bureaucratic agency is properly doing its job? Which type of oversight does Congress prefer and why? Define all concepts you mention.

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What are the two major types of oversight Congress can engage in to ensure a bureaucratic agency is properly doing its job? Which type of oversight does Congress prefer and why? Define all concepts you mention. (min word count: 150 words)

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Reading and Lecture:

Read Chapter 11 – Page 380

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Lecture Video 5.1 What Is the Bureaucracy?
Lecture Video 5.2 How Patronage Lives On
Lecture Video 5.3 Bureaucrats as Lawmakers
Lecture Video 5.4 Congressional Oversight

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