§ 193. — Privilege of witnesses.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC193]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6--CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
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.
(R.S. Sec. 103; June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 103 derived from act Jan. 24, 1862, ch. 11, 12 Stat. 333.
Amendments
1938--Act June 22, 1938, reenacted section without change.
