Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition whilst Congress in its committee rooms is Congress at work."

"...; and unless Congress both scrutinize these things, and sift them by every form of discussion, the country must remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most impo..."

"Quite as important as legislation is vigilant oversight of administration."

"It is the proper duty of a representative body to look diligently into every affair of government and to talk much about what it sees."