Scholars Urge Lawmakers Investigating Trumpworld to Focus on Substance
Government Executive | March 08, 2019
In advice to newly empowered House Democrats, a scholar of government performance welcomed fresh opportunities for oversight to end Congress’s “investigative drought” of recent years. But Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, argued that poorly planned investigations “weaken faithful execution of the laws and increase public distrust.”