取决于他们如何使用（或者滥用）这些权力，结果可能是有益的（实施必要的监察或者提高外交政策制定的透明度）或是有害的（比如说听证会可能异化成对某些官员和政策的政治攻击 ） 。
Depending on how this power is used (or abused), it can be beneficial (exercising needed oversight and increasing the transparency of policy and policy-making) or destructive (if, for example, hearings degenerate into politically motivated attacks on administration officials and policies).