Still, it was hardly how the founding fathers envisioned the deliberative arm of Congress.

The agency, an investigative arm of Congress, found a deep policy conflict in the Administration over smoking.

By most accounts, the agency, often described as an investigative arm of Congress, deserves its reputation for incorruptibility and intellectual honesty.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has put the cost at more than $100 billion.

The investigative arm of Congress also formally began an inquiry of its own.

The accounting office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the combined expenditures totaled $61 billion in 1989.

The accounting office is an investigative arm of Congress.

It would be the first time that the accounting office, the investigative arm of Congress, sued another government department for not cooperating with an inquiry.

That uncomfortable political truth was driven home on Monday by the head of the investigative arm of Congress.

Quite a bit, according to a new study by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress.