Fire alarm oversight describes ______.
A. Congress working hard to directly monitor whether agencies are implementing laws faithfully and efficiently
B. Congress designing procedures that allow interest groups and ordinary citizens to raise an alarm when something has gone wrong
C. Congress delegating power to the executive branch to raise an alarm when an agency is not faithfully and efficiently implementing laws
D. the ability of citizens to bring concerns about federal regulations directly to the Supreme Court to reduce the transaction costs of monitoring federal agencies
Answer: B
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