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2 U.S.C. § 193 — Privilege of witnesses

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Witnesses can't refuse to testify or hand over papers to Congress. This applies to questioning by either House, a joint committee, or any committee. Fear of embarrassment or disgrace is not a valid excuse.

No witness may refuse to testify to any fact, or refuse to produce any paper, when questioned by either House of Congress, by a joint committee set up by a joint or concurrent resolution of both Houses, or by any committee of either House. This is true even if the witness's testimony about that fact, or their handing over that paper, might tend to disgrace them or otherwise make them look bad.
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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.

Source credit: (R.S. § 103; June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942.)

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  • 1938Enacted · Act of June 22, 1938, ch. 594 · 52 Stat. 942

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