The House Oversight Committee is a congressional committee with authority to conduct investigations and to obtain and release documents as part of its oversight responsibilities.
November 18, 2025
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institutional
Describes the general oversight role and document-release capability of the House Oversight Committee.
Congressional oversight committees have the authority to issue subpoenas to obtain documents from private estates or third parties as part of investigations.
November 12, 2025
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procedural
Describes a general investigative power used by congressional committees.
Congressional committees commonly take depositions and record multiple hours of witness testimony as part of oversight and investigatory processes.
October 28, 2025
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temporal
Oversight investigations typically involve interviews, depositions, and recorded testimony from witnesses.
Document disclosures in congressional investigations may include Justice Department records, files held by a subject's estate, emails, and transcripts of interviews with former government officials.
January 01, 2025
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procedural
Types of materials that are commonly produced or released as part of congressional document releases in investigations.
Instructions by police supervisors to reclassify or downgrade offense charges can change reported crime statistics and may trigger external investigations by oversight bodies such as the U.S. Department of Justice or legislative oversight committees.
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process
Explains how internal classification practices affect public crime data and can prompt external review.