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what is now ohio, losing 700 men in a battle with native americans. the house formed a committee to investigate the incident. the first time an official under the president s direct supervision was investigated. that s according to house archives. at first president george washington was uneasy about handing over documents to the house committee, unsure if the house even had the authority to investigate. but washington consulted his cabinet, drawing agreement from bitter political foes thomas jefferson and then secretary of state alexander hamilton who was the secretary of the treasury, that the investigation was legitimate. st. clair was ultimately cleared but the precedent for house investigation had been set. through the 20th century, the powers had been asserted and brought down a corrupt interior secretary during the 1920s tea pot dome scandal and investigated presidential misconduct in the watergate hearings. leading to president nixon s

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