Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 6 — Congressional and Committee Procedure; Investigations
§ 191. Oaths to witnesses
Statutory text
The President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or a chairman of any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or of a committee of the whole, or of any committee of either House of Congress, is empowered to administer oaths to witnesses in any case under their examination.
Any member of either House of Congress may administer oaths to witnesses in any matter depending in either House of Congress of which he is a Member, or any committee thereof.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
R.S. § 101
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 191
R.S. § 101
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 101
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 101 derived from acts May 3, 1798, ch. 36, § 1, 1 Stat. 554, and Feb. 8, 1817, ch. 10, 3 Stat. 345.
R.S. § 101 constitutes first sentence, and act , constitutes second sentence.
Amendments
1938—Act , reenacted section without change.
Credits
1884–1938 · 3 acts
- R.S. § 101
- 1884June 26, 1884, ch. 123, 23 Stat. 60
- 1938June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942, 943.
Show as published
(R.S. § 101; June 26, 1884, ch. 123, 23 Stat. 60; June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942, 943.)