Consulting Services on Budgetary and financial oversight and Legislative Consulting Services

       The Consulting Services on the Budgetary and Financial Oversight and the Legislative Consulting Services are institutional bodies of technical consulting to the Chamber of Deputies. They are composed by multidisciplinary teams of experts, who provide technical expertise to the Representatives, Chamber Committees and National Congress in all the steps of the legislative process. Their work is confidential, non-partisan, and most of it is exclusive. Besides, they obey the criteria of relevance, objectivity and technical exemption. Therefore, the consultants (senior policy specialists) have the possibility to analyze different facts, perform researches and propose alternatives of action, while providing the technical foundations to the Parliamentary action.

        The Consulting Services on Budgetary and Financial Oversight was the first to make available to the public and to the Representative the data on budget and financial implementation of the Union Budget. This measure allowed the ordinary citizen to pursue an oversight of the public expenses. Among the bodies of the Federal Public Administration level, such information can only be found in an accessible level on the Chamber of Deputies website under “Orçamento da União”  (Union Budget).

        The Consulting staff position is entitled exclusively to tenured civil servants of the Chamber of Deputies. These are graduated and specialized professionals, selected through a competitive examination of tests and titles.
Many of the Consultants are post-graduated, holding both master and doctorate degrees. The Consulting Services staff has not only experts on judicial matters but also engineers, managers, auditors, economists, journalists, architects, social scientists, education specialists and professionals of wide variety of knowledge areas, most of them with relevant experience from former positions in the Executive Branch or the Court of Accounts. This facilitates a multidisciplinary approach and favors the excellent results the consulting services provide to those that request them.