The CFO Act also requires the Inspector General of each department to submit an annual audit verifying compliance with the law to Congress. The theory of congressional oversight is the wrong way to look at the question. Remember, Madison was an 18th Century thinker and his old mechanistic theories of constitutional governance may not fit the more fluid relativities of post-modern governance. On the other hand, if we invert the question, we could remove the mismatch between the values we profess and are expected to uphold and those we exhibit by our actual behavior. This inversion of conventional wisdom immediately removes the moral dilemma posed by the mismatch between values and behavior, but it raises all sorts of thorny constitutional questions.
Actions speak louder than words.
A amendment to the Constitution would tidy up our Constitutional house. Moreover, such an amendment would have the added advantage of restoring morality to government and efficiency to the Defense Auction by making it a constitutional imperative for politicians to bestow gifts at the right moment on those people by whose ignorance, and at whose expense, they amass their power.