sponsible for social security program oversight were required to seek information sources external to the Reagan Administration in an effort to learn exactly what was happening. Individuals whose benefits had been denied, terminated, or delayed, along with public interest groups representing such individuals were among the most important sources of such information (Chambers, 1985, pp. 230-240). Sources within the Social Security Administration were less reliable, and subsequent to the major Administration defeat in the Senate, no straight answers were ever provided by the Reagan Administration to the Congress in relation to the social security program.
Effects of Congressional Oversight on
Just prior to and during the first term of the Reagan Administration, the federal government tumbled to the fact that the baby boom generation would one day become eligible for social security retirement benefits (Goldman and Gattozzi, 1988, pp. 531-551). When a closer look was taken, it was thought that the
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