“The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has been underperforming in its oversight duties, according to an independent grading of congressional oversight.”
“The committee got an ‘F’ grade from on the Lugar Center’s Congressional Oversight Hearing Index. The center is a non-profit that promotes bipartisan governance. The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs continued a seven-year streak of ‘A’ grades.”
“The Senate committee showed the lowest performance of any Congress since 2009, with only 25 total hearings, none of them being directly about investigative oversight. On average, the committee has 37 total hearings, and at least one is on oversight, the Lugar Center report said.”
“’If a committee is holding any kind of oversight over a federal agency then it will include a congressional hearing,’ Jamie Spitz, Assistant Policy Director for Bipartisan Governance at the Lugar Center, said. ‘In our view, every committee hearing contains some oversight component. This is why we give some oversight credit to every hearing held in Congress…’” Read the full article here.
Source: Senate VA committee gets an ‘F’ in oversight – By Alyk Russell Kenlan, August 27, 2020. Military Times.
