well, carl levin was our founder and namesake. he was the longest serving senator from michigan, 36 years in the u.s. senate. and he spent virtually all of that time conducting oversight hearings. he looked at what government did? he looked at who. a wide range of complicated problems. we had hearings looking at enron, the financial crisis, money laundering, tax evasion. we had a lot of fun doing very complex investigations and standing up to very powerful interests that needed to change their ways. and elise bean worked for senator levin on that investigation committee at the time. she is now the dc head of the levin center for oversight and democracy. we appreciate you being on our program. congress

well, carl levin was our founder and namesake. he was the longest serving senator from michigan, 36 years in the u.s. senate. and he spent virtually all of that time conducting oversight hearings. he looked at what government did? he looked at who. a wide range of complicated problems. we had hearings looking at enron, the financial crisis, money laundering, tax evasion. we had a lot of fun doing very complex investigations and standing up to very powerful interests that needed to change their ways. and elise bean worked for senator levin on that investigation committee at the time. she is now the dc head of the levin center for oversight and democracy. we appreciate you being on our program. congressall right? welcome back, students. today we're going to be discussing the battle of atlantic. got a couple of key questions will be attempting to analyze.

and new york, and we were founded by senator carl levin in 2015 when he retired from the senate. and our mission is to advance bipartisan fact based oversight and in other words, to teach and train lawmakers and staff people working in congress and in state legislatures around the country, and even overseas parliaments in how to do good investigations, but also to understand scholarship and study how congress and the legislative branches work in gathering facts and sharing them with the public. what effect that has on our democracy, we think. and it's the supreme court has said the same thing that the legislature here, whether that's congress or state legislature, really has an obligation to be the eyes and voice of the people they represent and oversight is the is the central way that lawmakers fulfilled that responsibility. and so our work involves making sure that they do a as good a job as possible that the public can understand and follow and lawmakers accountable for being good stewards of the facts and doing investigations. and we appreciate you being part of congress inve