“The start of each new Congress marks the chance to adopt new rules, which cover a wide range of procedural matters, for the next two years. For example, committees and subcommittees may choose to lay out the procedures for issuing subpoenas and taking depositions. The Project On Government Oversight believes that oversight efforts, including investigations, are most credible and have the greatest impact when conducted in a bipartisan fashion. To help facilitate this, POGO’s Congressional Oversight Initiative, which seeks to improve and support Congress’s ability to conduct effective oversight, has begun to create an online database of each committee’s and subcommittee’s subpoena and deposition rules. This database will consist of two charts. The first is a detailed chart that includes the text of the rules and a hyperlink to the section of the rules dealing with these powers. The second is a shorthand, color-coded, reference explaining the procedures for issuing a subpoena or taking depositions in the different committees and subcommittees that adopted such rules, so that staffers can get this information at a glance.”