Investigations

Congress has conducted investigations of malfeasance since the 1790s.

How the Senate Investigates

Origins & Development

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Selected Investigations Selected List (PDF)

Summaries & Related Resources of Selected Investigations

Joint Committee on the Conduct of War, 1861-1865

Titanic Disaster Hearings | Senate Report on the Titanic Disaster (PDF)

The "Teapot" Dome Scandal, Apr 15, 1922

Committee on Banking & Currency Investigation of Wall Street (Pecora Investigation), 1932-1934

Special Committee to Investigate Air Mail & Ocean Mail Contracts,1933

"Merchants of Death" (Nye Committee), Sep 4, 1934

Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (The Truman Committee) 1941-1948

Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 1945-1946

McCarthy Hearings

S.Prt.107-84 Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations

Historical Highlights:

"Communists in Government Service" Feb 9, 1950

A Declaration of Conscience Jun 1, 1950

"Have you No Sense of Decency?" Jun 9, 1954

Oral Histories:

Ruth Young Watt, Interview #3: Chairman Joe McCarthy (PDF)

Floyd M. Riddick, Interview #7: The McCarthy and Dodd Cases (PDF)

Keafuver Committee

Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (The Watergate Committee), 1973-1974

Exhibit:

Watergate Files (Gerald Ford Library)

Oral Histories:

Senate Voices: The Senate & Watergate

William F. Hildenbrand, Interview #5 (PDF)

Chuck Ludlam on the Watergate Reform Bill

Francis R. Valeo on President Nixon's Impeachment Trial