The Study Of The Power Of Investigation Of American Congress

In 1792, the U.S. House of Representatives has an investigation on the general Claire defeat,then resulting American congressional investigation system, and as the congressional oversight of government behavior and administrative officials. In the house and the senate standing committee and special committee or under the auspices of the joint commission, through the scene, a variety of forms such as investigation hearing, in more than two hundred years of political practice, the increasing maturity of the operation system Survey a wide range: covering the government finance, personnel, policy, and the concrete behavior of the administrative officials, and other aspects; There are diverse ways of the hearings on investigation of investigation, including using this approach is especially mature; Investigation procedure configuration is reasonable, the authorization to start and end of the report, stead fast, legal and rational... System operation brings to the social life and so on American political and economic fields. But at the same time because of the influence of the factors such as the country's political parties, congress also exist such investigations power abuse, such as McCarthy survey mechanism operation there are still some limitations, must be further defined line power, accurate positioning with the administrative power, especially the relationship between executive privilege, so as to give full play to the congressional investigation secondary legislation, the function of the supervision and administration, safeguarding national security and stability, which embody the people's sovereignty, the principle of separation of powers, and be a model for other countries parliamentary inquiry system running.In view of the technical power, National People's Congress can be based on its basic national conditions in our country, on the basis of reference to American congressional investigation system, taking its essence, improving the system of specific problem investigation, to manifest the authority of supervision of National People's Congress.The focus of this article lies in carding American congressional investigation system, in particular to straighten out the power operation mechanism, mainly from the survey organization, implementation, the process of the survey result on three aspects, including research, survey, investigation methods, procedures, the survey line. As the core, the author separately from the theory and practice, history and present situation of several aspects, to the United States congress to survey system, in retrospect, based on reality, looking to the future. Understanding of the historical development of American congressional investigation system, combing its research situation, and several typical cases of such investigations by the congress of the United States and further explore on the exercise of congress requires for American political, economic, social and other aspects, and sums up the experience and revelation of congressional investigation system, from the perspective of reference for a congressional investigation system to a specific problem investigation is to the Chinese National People's Congress system of beneficial reference.The article is divided into four parts. The first part is based on the history of the Congressional investigation of America,explain the historical evolution of the American congressional investigation system, to the timeline of events of sets out the legislation of the American congress' s investigative system and typical cases. The Second part introduces the connotation of such investigations of congress, mainly includes the definition of such investigations to congress, the theories of the congressional investigation system,power characteristics, congressional investigations and administrative investigation, etc. The third part is the main part of the article, detailed introduces the operation mechanism of American congressional investigation system, including research, survey, investigation methods, procedures, the survey line, and the processing of the results of the survey and so on. The fourth part is the evaluation of American congressional investigation system, summarizes the enforcement power of congress is to the United States, the influence of both the positive side, at the same time also introduces the abuse of such investigations, and reflect on the experience and lessons of the operation of the congressional investigation system mainly from the clear scope, broaden the investigation subject, enhance the high authority several aspects discusses the enforcement power of congress to perfect our country's specific question survey system of beneficial reference.