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76 U. Colo. L. Rev. 297 (2005)
Congressional Reporting Requirements: Testing the Limits of the Oversight Power

handle is hein.journals/ucollr76 and id is 307 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS: TESTING THE LIMITS OF THE OVERSIGHT POWER JONATHAN G. PRAY* TABLE OF CONTENTS IN TRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 298 1. THE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF REPORTING RE QUIREM ENTS ............................................................................. 298 II. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS AS A FUNCTION OF CONGRESS'S O VERSIGHT POW ER ....................................................................... 304 A. The Development of the Modern Oversight Power ................ 305 B. Types of Oversight .................................................................. 306 C. The Limits of the Oversight Power ......................................... 308 III. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS .............................................................. 311 A. Reporting Requirements are Likely Not Political Q uestions ................................................................................ 3 12 B. A Legal Framework for Evaluating the Constitutionality of Challenged Reporting Requirements ..................................... 314 1. Easy Cases: Requirement Clearly Falls Within the Limits of the Oversight Power ......................................... 314 2. Hard Cases: Requirement Involves a Power that is Neither Purely Legislative nor Purely Executive ............ 315 IV. WHEN OVERSIGHT BECOMES POLICY: A CASE STUDY ON THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS IN THE SUDAN PEACE ACT .............. 317 A. The Legislative History of the Sudan Peace Act .................... 317 B. The Reporting Requirements in the Sudan Peace Act ............ 321 1. The Easy Case: Section 8 of the Sudan Peace Act and the Financing and Construction of Infrastructure and Pipelines for Oil Exploitation .......................................... 322 2. The Hard Case: Section 9 and The President's Use of N on-O LS A gencies .......................................................... 323 C ON CLU SION ......................................................................................... 324 * Candidate for Juris Doctor, University of Colorado School of Law, 2005. B.A. 2000, University of Colorado at Boulder.

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