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This trope also covers investigations covered out by other legislatures, real or fictional. The British Parliament has permanent Select Committees (please note that these are the same as the standing committees in the US) that investigate certain areas, including public accounts.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Lt. Col. Devoe's [[Establishing Character Moment]] in ''[[The Peacemaker]]'' is him explaining to a subcommittee how the SUV in his expense report was vital in securing some surplus chemical weapons from the black market.
* The Senate Committee on Organized Crime plays a huge role in ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]], Part II''. One of Michael's former Capos threatens to go state's evidence, {{spoiler|until Michael brings his Italian brother to watch, which shames the Capo enough that he not only recants his testimony in public, he commits suicide.}} As an added bonus, they frame a Senator for killing a hooker, and that same Senator stands up and gives a hilariously over-the-top speech about the contributions of Italian-Americans.
* Dick Goodwin, one of the main characters of ''Quiz Show'' ([[Very Loosely Based Onon 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.
* ''[[Time Cop]]'' has a Senate Committee arranging congressional oversight on [[Time Travel]].
* In the second [[Iron Man (Film)|Iron Man film]], Tony Stark is facing down a senate subcommittee because his Iron Man suit isn't being shared with the United States government, which they see as a big no-no. They order Stark to hand it over. Stark says no, saying that because he is Iron Man and "the suit and [he] are one", doing so is akin to indentured servitude [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and/or prostitution.]] He ''is'' building a suit for [[Black Best Friend|Col. Rhodes]], so it's more of a matter of principle than any lack of goodwill.
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