United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department

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The United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department is a defunct

committee of the U.S. House of Representatives
.

History

United States Constitution
provides that

No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Initially, the House appointed

Committee on Public Expenditures
.

It shall be the duty of the said Committee for Public Expenditures, to examine into the state of the several Public Departments, and particularly into the laws making appropriations of moneys, and to report whether the moneys have been disbursed conformably with such laws; and also to report, from time to time, such provisions and arrangements as may be necessary to add to the economy of the Departments and the accountability of their officers.[2]

In 1816, the House initiated an organizational change that provided a means of continuously and consistently following the operations of the various

Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia proposed the appointment of six standing committees to examine the accounts and expenditures of the State, Treasury, War, Navy, Post Office Departments and those related to the construction and maintenance of public buildings.[3]

The committees were created on March 30, 1816,

Benjamin Huger
(South Carolina) as the first members of the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department.

In 1927 it was consolidated with ten other Committees on Expenditures to form the

United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
.

Notes

  1. ^ Annals of the Congress of the United States, 7th Congress, 1st session., January 7, 1802, p. 412.
  2. William Irving (New York) to the committee (p. 314
    ).
  3. ^ Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 14th Congress, 1st session, February 28, 1816, pp. 411-413
  4. ^ Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, 14th Congress, 1st session, March 30, 1816, pp. 550-551

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