Legislative committee investigating finances for state mental health agency (Capitol Update) - Oklahoma Policy Institute

Legislative committee investigating finances for state mental health agency (Capitol Update) - Oklahoma Policy Institute

Legislative investigative committees in Oklahoma are rare, as they should be. The legislature has only four months to enact laws and policy for state government and to write a balanced budget for the coming year. Time spent taking testimony under oath and trying to discern the who, what, when, why, and how of past behavior is usually better left to the executive or judicial branches and legislative monitoring during the interim between sessions.…