Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 6 — Congressional and Committee Procedure; Investigations
§ 193. Privilege of witnesses
Statutory text
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.
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. § 103
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 193
R.S. § 103
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 103
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 103 derived from act Jan. 24, 1862, ch. 11, 12 Stat. 333.
Amendments
1938—Act , reenacted section without change.
Credits
1938 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 103
- 1938June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942.
Show as published
(R.S. § 103; June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942.)