I've heard it called a junket, a fact-finding mission, or a boondoggle. I think the congressment usually say fact-finding mission.
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Represenatives, other Officers and Speaker.
money, food, military assistance, or other supplies given to help other countries
the purpose was to make a better life and to ease down on payment and other expensis
a Congrssional oversight is a step in the process for ideas such as the foreign policy to supervise and over view all the aspects of this. it is most common that this over view is made by the Executive branch or other agencies and other bodies such as the military.
The Congress was controlled by the Republicans who wanted to deal with the former Confederate States in the harshest way possible. They wanted revenge for them fighting the war and their enslavement of others. President Lincoln, on the other hand, preferred to focus on reunion rather than revenge.