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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 6 — Congressional and Committee Procedure; Investigations

§ 195a. Restriction on payment of witness fees or travel and subsistence expenses to persons sub­penaed by Congressional committees

Statutory text

No part of any appropriation disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate shall be available on and after , for the payment to any person, at the time of the service upon him of a subpena requiring his attendance at any inquiry or hearing conducted by any committee of the Congress or of the Senate or any subcommittee of any such committee, of any witness fee or any sum of money as an advance payment of any travel or subsistence expense which may be incurred by such person in responding to that subpena.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 86–628 · 74 Stat. 446

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 195a

    (Pub. L. 86–628, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 449.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–628, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 449.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 86–628, , 74 Stat. 449.)

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