Oversight and the Congress, with Fellow Tim Persons of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Dan Lips of The Foundation for American Innovation

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of federal oversight and watchdog organizations on government spending and lawmaking.

Whether Americans realize it or not, federal oversight and watchdog organizations can be enormously impactful in how the government spends money, makes laws and builds for the future. So why don't more Americans know about the connections between lawmakers and oversight bodies? Fellow Tim Persons, Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Dan Lips of the Foundation for American Innovation joined James-Christian Blockwood to discuss the importance of oversight and how we should think about...

People in this episode

Host: James-Christian Blockwood

Guests: Tim Persons, Dan Lips

Topics covered

• federal oversight
• government spending
• lawmaking
• watchdog organizations
• public awareness

Keywords

• federal oversight
• government
• watchdog organizations
• Tim Persons
• Dan Lips

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Foundation for American Innovation

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