Senate Watergate Committee

The Senate Watergate Committee, known officially as the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, was a special committee established by the United States Senate, S.Res. 60, in 1973, to investigate the Watergate scandal, with the power to investigate the break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., and any subsequent cover-up of criminal activity, as well as "all other illegal, improper, or uneth