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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The United States Congress is one of the most powerful legislative bodies in the world. It has an oversight capacity that is quite simply huge and investigates pretty much every aspect of American government policy through a system of permanent and ad-hoc committees. These committees have the power to issue subpoenas and compel relevant officials to testify under oath. While most often rather boring and tedious for most involved, at times they've become high political theater, with some instances (HUAC, Watergate) becoming etched in modern history. Of course the members of the committee have a tendency to act like every last one of these committees is of the utmost importance. Thus if they are at all connected to the government, our heroes can count on having to answer to Congress at some point or another for their actions. While matters such as government corruption, terrorism, or military operations are close to Truth in Television, you more likely will see congressional oversight committees dealing with everything from the undead to alien species. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Even when not in play directly, this trope may affect a work, as the bosses try to avert being hauled in for a hearing by sweet-talking some senator or representative. Most often the chair of the committee in question. So this is why you see a senator getting a guided tour of the Elaborate Underground Base. Just make sure the committee's head isn't in bed with a high-ranking executive of the company they are meant to be investigating. Or otherwise working with the villains. Despite the name, this trope also covers investigations carried out by other legislatures, real or fictional. For example, the British Parliament has permanent Select Committees that investigate certain areas, including public accounts, hence this page's use of the committee hearing from Skyfall as the heading image. Some examples might not even be legislatures, as long as they concern the nominal governing body with a committee. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })For obvious reasons, this is mostly an American and British trope, due to the way The Common Law works, something that it's very difficult to replicate in other legal systems. Examples: |
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The last season of The Thick of It culminated in an inquiry on the culture of leaking in government, leading to Malcolm Tucker's downfall | |
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At the end of The Bourne Identity, Ward Abbott goes before a subcommittee to tie off Operation Treadstone. After Abbott finishes testifying about Treadstone, he begins briefing the committee on Blackbriar... This receives a Call-Back at the end of its second sequel, The Bourne Ultimatum, as Pamela Landy goes before a subcommittee to blow the whistle on Operation Blackbriar. | |
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Episode "Apollo 1" in From the Earth to the Moon dramatizes the Senate hearings into the launch pad fire that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. The main prosecutor, Senator Walter Mondale, is shown to have a nuanced opposition to the Apollo program, but astronaut Frank Borman's testimony at the end is shown as instrumental in convincing the committee to let it continue, ending with "I think you should stop this witch hunt and let us go to the Moon." | |
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In Super Munchkin, one of the curse cards ("traps" in Super Munchkin's terminology) is a congressional hearing, which is rather costly on the victim. | |
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The victim of the first contract in Hitman: Blood Money. The Swing King was a local celebrity and entrepreneur throughout the '80s and '90s until a Ferris wheel in his park collapsed due to negligence and killed 36 people. Swing King went to court but was cleared of all charges. However, the accident cost him his reputation, his fortune, and his trophy wife as a result. | |
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Dick Goodwin, one of the main characters of Quiz Show (Very Loosely Based on a True Story) is a young lawyer with a House oversight committee who cajoles his boss into investigating rigged TV game shows. The congressional hearings are the setting for the Charles Van Doren's confession that he's been cheating at the climax of the film and for Herbert Stempel's attempts to vindicate himself by exposing the network. It ends up being as much about the flaws in the system as anything, illustrated by details like the head of the committee covering his microphone to reminisce with the network president about the last time they went golfing together before calling him to testify. | |
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RoboCop (2014): Raymond Sellars, CEO of Omnicorp, is introduced speaking before a senate subcommittee regarding his plans to bring robots to American law enforcement. | |
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Shinji And Warhammer 40 K: In chapter 22 the main characters have to come before a Government committee to explain what happened in Tokyo-3 during the attack of Matarael. | |
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In the first episode of Fringe season 2 (A New Day in the Old Town), Broyles is called to Washington to appear before a Senate subcommittee. They tell him that the lack of definitive results produced by the Fringe Division is unacceptable, and are poised to shut the division down until Peter gives them a broken shapeshifting device used by the shapeshifter who killed Charlie. Subverted across most of the rest of the series where over-seeing Senators, and pretty much all other authority figures, are almost refreshingly reasonable. At one point in Season 4 Agent Broyles even volunteers to turn a world-changing decision over to the relevant committee, only for them to hand it right back to the joint Fringe Team/Division experts. At the end of the series Broyles is hauled before the Senator . . . who blandly congratulates him on a job well done and pours resources on him. | |
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Evangelion 303: The Black Project Evangelion is overseen by a Senate committee. Gendo and Fuyutsuki often appear before the committee to report about the progress and state of the project, answer queries or assuage concerns, since the committee's members are always complaining about funding, the state of the program… and some of them would love an excuse for shutting it down (although to be fair, their concerns are not without merit). | |
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A late episode of Animaniacs has Slappy, Skippy, and the Warners present at a congressional event where Reef Blunt of the Federal Television Agency celebrates the infamous E/I laws — Slappy says "we're ruined", and the Warners declare it to be the "end of civilization as we know it". To twist the knife further, Blunt makes Slappy tone down the violence in favor of assembling a non-violent "problem solver" machine. When Skippy comes home with a black eye from the school bully, Slappy wants Skippy to simply use a mallet on him. Skippy points out if they do that, they'll simply "get dragged into another congressional hearing". | |
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24: Jack Bauer appears before a Senate Committee at the beginning of Day Seven. In the Expanded Universe, David Palmer used his influence in such a sub-committee to authorise "Operation Nightfall". A House Committee investigated the events of Day One and the report was "leaked" to form a book called 24: The Official Investigation. |
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This happened to the FYI crew in an episode of Murphy Brown. | |
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In Iron Man 2, Tony Stark is facing down a senate subcommittee because his Iron Man suit isn't being shared with the United States government (and the minor detail of him being an unstable billionaire with unrestricted access to a superweapon), which they see as a big no-no. They order Stark to hand it over. Tony says no, saying that because he is Iron Man and "the suit and [he] are one", doing so is akin to indentured servitude and/or prostitution. As it turns out, he has already built a suit specifically for his best friend Col. James Rhodes (Air Force liaison to Stark Industries) , so it's more of a matter of principle than any lack of goodwill. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it's revealed that one of the committee members is also loyal to HYDRA. | |
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The Return of Captain Invincible: Captain Invincible is called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to answer charges of Communist sympathies (based upon the fact he provided super-powered air support for the invading armies' march on Berlin- and the Russian forces were closer to Berlin than the US/UK), impersonating an officer of the United States Armed Forces (as there was no record of him receiving a captaincy or even a commission in any service), and showing his Underwear of Power in public. | |
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In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, the director of the Republic Intelligence Service is called to testify before a closed session of the Intelligence Committee. He tells them very little, much to the chagrin of the politicians involved. | |
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HERZ: Misato often has to appear before committees and general councils to argue about –and often against- using HERZ’s Evangelions in a war. In a chapter, she talked before a committee to dissuade them from using Unit 01 in the Congo crisis. | |
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The second half of Book Four of RealityCheck's Nyxverse series Alicornundrum has Equestria placed on trial by the Council of Celestial Stewards for the actions of Nyx in causing Night Eternal to last for several weeks over Equestria, and subsequently causing trouble in other parts of the world because of the Sun constantly hanging over them at that same time. All of the Princesses are brought before the Council to answer for what happened and to try finding a way to properly solve this issue. | |
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The Pentagon Wars uses this trope as a framing device. The general in charge of the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle squirms under the interrogation of a House subcommittee while flashbacks reveal what a disaster it was. | |
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This is Harry's main concern at the beginning of Broken Souls, as a dead German national on British soil is sure to stir up trouble. When it spirals into a Government Conspiracy things get even worse. | |
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In Public Enemies, J. Edgar Hoover's first scene is in a budget subcommittee hearing where he is requesting a doubling of the Bureau of Investigation's budget. | |
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In The X-Files two-part episode "Tunguska" and "Terma," Agent Scully is forced to testify before a Senate committee about the death of a diplomat who'd been carrying black oil in a diplomatic pouch. When she refuses to disclose Agent Mulder's whereabouts, she's briefly jailed for contempt. Needless to say perhaps, the committee's chairman is connected to the Syndicate. | |
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Tony Stark (Iron Man) faces a senate committee himself in a 1960s story and the questioning proves so long and arduous that Stark collapses on the stand. When an attending doctor opens Stark's shirt, he finds his chestplate/external pacemaker and it is finally exposed to the world that the tycoon is a very sick man. | |
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City of Light: Ravidel Shand is called to answer (false) charges before the senate of Palidia. So are the main characters at a later date. | |
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Wiseguy. Happens twice to Vinnie Terranova, first to report on the CIA's use of Arms Dealer Mel Profitt to take over a communist nation, then when he was used as the scapegoat for a Government Conspiracy to ruin the Japanese economy with counterfeit yen. As the senator who cross-examined him on the first occasion turned out to be involved in the second conspiracy, it was definitely a case of "I'm sure they'll ask you that." | |
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One episode of Quantum Leap ("Honeymoon Express") revolves around Al being called before a subcommittee to account for the doings of Project Quantum Leap. The committee is incredulous at his testimony at first and threatens to cut off their funding, so Al tries to get Sam to do something in the past that will show that he's actually back there and they're not just lying to get funding. Turns out in the leap Sam is in, he helped a young woman gain confidence to become a lawyer and later run for congress. This causes the Hanging Senator chairing the hearing to suddenly be replaced by a future version of the woman Sam helped, who approves more funding for the project. | |
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Once More with Feeling: After Shinji and Asuka engaged the Sixth Angel and that battle resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and the sinking of dozens of warships, one of the members of Seele was dragged before the US Senate on no fewer than four occasions to answer some heated questions. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Senator Kinsey, who chairs the committee that sets the SGC's budget. A later episode has Hammond figure out why Kinsey is pushing for the Stargate to be handed over to the NID when he learns he's moved to the committee that directly controls that. Later episodes include other instances, including one involving a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations before which General Landry and Vala Mal Doran appear. Vala accuses the chairman of the Committee of Compensating for Something; Landry is not amused. |
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At the end of Book 1 of Event Horizon: Storm of Magic, The Company™ is made to appear before the U.N. Security Council and justify their actions in helping cause a civil war in Westeros. | |
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Mass Effect 3 opens with Commander Shepard in lockdown for their actions during Mass Effect 2. These include working with a terrorist group and (if the last DLC mission was purchased) destroying an entire batarian star system for the purposes of delaying the invasion of genocidal Abusive Precursors. By the time the actual "tribunal" rolls around, however, said invasion is well underway and the Committee spends what screentime they have begging Shepard for answers. Then a Reaper appears practically on top of them... | |
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Mass Effect: The Citadel Council periodically tries to do this once you start working for them in the first game. Since you're in your badass spaceship on the other side of the galaxy, though, you can just hang up on them if they start giving you trouble (and they will start giving you trouble). Mass Effect 3 opens with Commander Shepard in lockdown for their actions during Mass Effect 2. These include working with a terrorist group and (if the last DLC mission was purchased) destroying an entire batarian star system for the purposes of delaying the invasion of genocidal Abusive Precursors. By the time the actual "tribunal" rolls around, however, said invasion is well underway and the Committee spends what screentime they have begging Shepard for answers. Then a Reaper appears practically on top of them... |
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Near the beginning of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), senior members of Monarch are called before a congressional committee to explain why their organization's activities should be kept secret, and why the military shouldn't just hunt down and kill all the Titans. | |
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In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the title character has to appear before the Senate ethics committee when he is the victim of Taylor's character assassination campaign. | |
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Also happened to Opus in Bloom County; he ends up literally getting labelled a liberal (multiple times..) | |
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In G.I. Jane, O'Neill threatens Senator DeHaven with this during a conversation they have after O'Neill learns that DeHaven was the one behind the attempts to get her kicked out of the Navy. | |
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Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister both occasionally called for Hacker or Sir Humphrey to be called before a Select Committee of Parliament, where their stories would frequently do one another no good. On the other hand, the one time they showed up together, it was apparently a victory for the both of them. The UK also has "public inquiries". In one episode of Yes, Prime Minister Sir Humphrey told Hacker there would be a public inquiry into recent leaks. Hacker replied, "I don't want a public inquiry! I want to find out who's responsible!" |
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Most of the plot of Kitty Goes to Washington, the second book of the series. In the first book, the Masquerade was broken, revealing the existence of vampires and werewolves to the general public, in large part by Kitty herself. In the second book, the Senate wants details straight from the source. | |
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30 Rock has Jack Donaghy brought before House committees to defend NBC's commitment to diversity and later the takeover by Kabletown. | |
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M in Skyfall is required to testify before a Defence Ministry hearing about MI6's effectiveness. It's rendered moot when Silva and his henchmen attack the hearing and M is eventually killed before they come to any decision. | |
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In What's the Worst That Could Happen?, Max is called before a Senate hearing. Kevin and Berger follow Max to Washington to try and rob Max's apartment. There, Kevin learns that Max intends to secretly bribe the senators, and replaces the bribe money with insulting notes in Max's name. While Max later addresses the Senate Committee he gets a call from Kevin who tells him that if Max will give him his ring back he will give him back his. Max refuses and proceeds to repeatedly curse at Kevin. To the senators, and other viewers, it appears he is speaking to them, with the result being that the hearing ends very badly for Max. | |
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"Testimony", the penultimate episode of Veep's fourth season, is told in Scrapbook Story style through recorded legal depositions and C-SPAN segments of Selina's crew in front of a congress hearing, shuffling the blame around for a government data breach that's been season's Plot Arc. | |
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Dollhouse features a US Senator, Daniel Perrin, who is investigating Rossum Corporation and plans to use Mellie (the former "November") as a star witness. Worried that his attractive blonde wife is in fact an Active, Paul Ballard goes over to their house and uses a device that renders Actives highly dazed and gives them nosebleeds. It has no effect on her, but then the horrible truth is revealed... the senator is the Active. | |
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The West Wing has several arcs where Josh, Leo, and almost every other character were dragged to testify before a committee or another. From the episode Ways and Means: |
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In Dastardly & Muttley, General Harrier gets hauled before a Senate committee in order to explain his part in the chaos surrounding the Unstabilium. | |
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In Advise & Consent, Robert Leffingwell, the nominee for Secretary of State is grilled intensely by a Senate committee over his alleged Communist sympathies. The hearing climaxes with a Surprise Witness testifying about Leffingwell's connections to a left-wing organization. | |
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In the miniseries Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Hanna-Barbera character Snagglepuss is re-envisioned as a closeted gay playwright during the '50s (essentially Tennessee Williams). In the first pages of the book, he is being grilled by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and clearly not taking it seriously at all. When asked if he was a member of the Communist Party he replies, "Lord of heaven, no! I don't even go to parties anymore!" He's called in again during the climax of the story, with the committee now planning to fully ruin him. They succeed, but not before he gives them all a "The Reason You Suck" Speech on how they're ruining America in their attempt to protect it. | |
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The Dilbert animated series has Dogbert persuading Congress to consolidate all holidays into a single holiday — Dogbert Day. It happens in the comic strip a few times too, namely when Dogbert becomes a Supreme Court nominee. | |
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The Trooper in Star Wars: The Old Republic has to answer questions from the Republic Senate's armed services committee at several points. | |
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In a tie-in with Infinite Crisis, Superman gets to experience this moment during something of a "Freaky Friday" Flip with his Earth-2 counterpart Kal-L. Where the other Society members refuse to reveal their identities, Superman does and states that he's ashamed to be an American because it got this far. | |
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This was the focus of an entire episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, which combined the elements of a Clip Show and a Take That! directed at several current members of Congress, including Ted Kennedy (who orchestrated the whole thing), Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Trent Lott, Orrin Hatch, Phil Gramm, Richard Shelby, and Strom Thurmond. Nick and Johnny were arguing about the show's violent content, and after the Senate actually ruled in their favor, Kennedy - who opposed that ruling - went nuts, beat the crap out of most of the rest of the Senate, and then got his ass kicked by Steve Austin. (It's a weird show.) | |
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"The Rundown Job" on Leverage starts with a colonel before a congressional committee about teams he's put together to take care of various threats, but which crossed agency lines without authorization. He's warned not to do it again, and so when a terrorist threat against Washington, D.C. comes up, he turns to the Leverage team to handle it. | |
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The third installment of Syphon Filter has the protagonists investigated by a Congressional committee hearing. | |
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Timecop has a Senate Committee arranging congressional oversight on Time Travel. | |
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Gets referenced several times throughout The Laundry Files in relation to the British government, because the protagonists work for a beyond-top-secret intelligence agency tasked with upholding a lovecraftian Masquerade, any breach of which would almost certainly lead to mass civilian casualties and very uncomfortable questions being asked in the aftermath. | |
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Senator June Finch summons Superman to a Congressional hearing to discuss whether he's a threat or not and whether he is responsible for the destruction caused in his fight with Zod and his intervention in a hostage crisis in the film’s opening. Bonus points for featuring an actual sitting U.S. Senator, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who had previously made cameos in Batman & Robin and The Dark Knight. During the hearing, Lex Luthor blows up the building, killing everyone inside but Clark, sending him into a Heroic BSoD and making the public more suspicious of the Man of Steel. | |
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RWBYDestinyOfRemnant: In Chapter 27's flashbacks, Headmaster Ozpin was hauled before the Vale Council to answer for the events that had happened in Volumes 1 - 3. | |
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In Clear and Present Danger (as seen in the page quote), Ritter explains to Jack Ryan exactly what his answers will be if/when Ritter finds himself Hauled Before A Senate SubCommittee. At the end of the film, Jack goes before a subcommittee to report on the events of the movie. Of course, Ritter's "Get out of Jail Free" Card is signed by the person who authorized it, so he pretty much has to name who was responsible if he wants to stay out of jail. Interestingly, the book has everything being entirely legal, with the exception that when Jack does get to the subcommittee, he would be giving them false information based on the briefings that he received from his superiorsnote He would be breaking the law by giving false testimony, whether he knew it was false or not, and if the Committee learned he was ordered to lie, then and only then does the operation become illegal.. He even lampshades the whole process of government by saying "Everything that's happened only becomes murder retroactively if something extraneous to the murder does not happen. Who made up this bullshit process, anyway?" |
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The Justice Society of America (the Justice League's predecessors) were called before a committee and accused of being Communist sympathizers. Depending on the continuity, this may have been the actual Senator McCarthy or a substitute. They chose to disband and retire rather than comply with the new Super Registration Act. Later, we get to see an alternate universe where the JSA did sign up. (It didn't end well.) In a tie-in with Infinite Crisis, Superman gets to experience this moment during something of a "Freaky Friday" Flip with his Earth-2 counterpart Kal-L. Where the other Society members refuse to reveal their identities, Superman does and states that he's ashamed to be an American because it got this far. |
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Tunnelvision is set entirely during one regarding the eponymous first uncensored network in the US; however, the bulk of the film concentrates on a screening of the selection of Tunnelvision programming on a randomly-selected day during said hearing. | |
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JAG. The first Secretary of the Navy in the series, Alexander Nelson, gets called before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to answer for his unauthorized intelligence activities carried out by JAG lawyers and not by intelligence professionals. Ironically enough, the Chairman of the Committee, Edward Sheffield, ends up becoming his successor. | |
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This happened to Rat in a Pearls Before Swine arc when he marketed a "weight loss method" that consisted of climbing into a cardboard box and remaining inside until they lost weight. | |
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Due to the fallout from the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode opens with Maria Hill just exiting a Congressional hearing, talking on the phone with her new boss, Pepper Potts before being drawn into a confrontational discussion with Melinda May. | |
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In the Wild Cards books, the Red Scare of The '50s was supplemented by a fear of super-powered Aces, resulting in the Senate Committee on Ace Resources and Activities (SCARE). The committee's ruthless attacks on Aces parallel McCarthyism. | |
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Ben Safford Mysteries: Congressman Ben Safford isn't on every committee investigating wrongdoing in the series, but when he is, and he tends to play a more active role in solving the mystery, but he does sit through some interesting proceedings. He sits on a committee uncovering the mechanisms of institutional Medicare fraud in The Attending Physician (at one point, it's being interrupted by a process server telling the testifying doctor that he's being sued), and is chagrined when the scandal reaches his hometown. In Epitaph for a Lobbyist, his committee tries to figure out which congressman a murdered lobbyist bribed to rig a vote. | |
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Airwolf has Archangel showing the eponymous chopper to a congressional demonstration when Dr. Moffett steals it, killing several people and blinding Archangel in one eye. | |
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Watchmen: Several of the original Minutemen are dragged in front of the (once-real) House Un-American Activities Committee. Hooded Justice refuses to participate and vanishes without a trace. To the story's modern day (1985) nobody knows who he was. The prequel, Before Watchmen, eventually reveals he was framed for several crimes by The Comedian and killed in battle with the other Minutemen. | |
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Deep Cover: After Russell deals a crippling blow to the Gallegos cartel and implicates Mexican diplomat Hector Guzman as a high-level drug trafficker, he is brought before a House Judiciary Committee hearing to report his findings to the public representatives. When Guzman's crimes are brought to light, several members demand that the evidence be destroyed, as it will inevitably embarass the current administration and possibly hurt US-Mexico relations. Russell had anticipated this, and distributed copies to the press beforehand. | |
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Steve Rogers (Captain America) faces the Committee on Super Human Activities, who demand that he work only for them since the U.S. government legally owns the CA identity. He quits instead. (And his replacement, John Walker, is such a jerk, he nearly ruins the reputation of Captain America; still, Walker later becomes a somewhat decent hero as U.S. Agent.) | |
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Braindead 2016: Learning that his sister is being subjected to Enhanced Interrogation Techniques for information on alleged terrorism, Luke Healy attempts to contact the FBI director to get him to release Laurel. When the director denies holding Laurel, Luke uses his power to summon the director to an impromptu meeting of the intelligence committee. | |
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