1. 27 H Trevor Watson Ankur Gandhi Chase Hawkins

2. 27 H. Assess the non-legislative functions of the congressional committees, including their investigation and oversight function.

3. General Oversight: Requires each standing committee (except Appropriations and Budget) to review on a continuing basis of the laws, programs, and agencies under its jurisdiction to determine whether they should be continued, curtailed, or terminated.

4. Investigative Authority: Each committee is authorized at any time to conduct such investigations and studies as it may consider necessary or appropriate in the exercise of its responsibilities.

5. Congressional Scandals Watergate Bill Clinton 1.) Whitewater Controversy 2.) Monica Lewinsky Scandal James Anthony Traficant, Jr. Scandal

6. Watergate: A general term used for a series of political scandals, that began with 5 men being arrested for entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington D.C. on June 17, 1972. The scandal reached to the top levels of American government, and the attempted cover up ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974.

7. President Nixon

8. Hillary Whitewater Scandal: Investigation conducted by F.B.I., Senate Watergate Committee, and House Judiciary Committee that began with real estate dealings of Bill and Clinton. The criminal allegations against President Clinton in the Whitewater affair claimed in November 1993 that the Clinton’s pressured Jim and Susan McDougal into an illegal $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal.

9. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky Scandal: The Lewinsky scandal is a political sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between President Bill Clinton and a then 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate of Lewis and Clarke College, was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton's first term. As Lewinsky's relationship with Clinton became more distant and after she had left the White House to work at the Pentagon, Lewinsky confided details of her feelings and Clinton's behavior to her friend and Defense Department co-worker Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their telephone conversations. When Tripp discovered in January 1998 that Lewinsky had signed an affidavit in the Paula Jones case denying a relationship with Clinton, she delivered the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who was investigating Clinton on various other matters, including the Whitewater Scandal, Filegate, and Travelgate. The news of this affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 by the United States House of Representatives and his subsequent acquittal on all charges (of perjury and obstruction of justice) in a 21-day Senate trial.

11. James Anthony Traficant, Jr. Scandal: A former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio (1985-2002) was expelled after being convicted of accepting bribes, filing false returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington, D.C. and is currently serving out an eight year prison term with a projected release date of September 2, 2009.

12. James Anthony Traficant Jr.