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How to Investigate the Federal Government - by Santi Ruiz

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"Sometimes folks will not fully appreciate our authority... our attorneys will have to educate them"

Over the past month, we’ve interviewed former bigwigs at three of Congress’s major support agencies, the bodies that exist to make Congress smarter, faster, and more effective at its job. In this series, we’ve tackled the Congressional Research Service, an in-house think tank. We’ve covered the Congressional Budget Office and its key role in shaping each year’s federal budget. And we investigated the now-defunct Office of Technology Assessment to better understand why it died and what comes next. To close out this series, today we interviewed the Government Accountability Agency’s Orice…

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