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CITE

    2 USC Sec. 192                                              01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 2 - THE CONGRESS
    CHAPTER 6 - CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS

HEAD

    Sec. 192. Refusal of witness to testify or produce papers

STATUTE

      Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the
    authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to
    produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House,
    or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent
    resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee of
    either House of Congress, willfully makes default, or who, having
    appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question
    under inquiry, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable
    by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and
    imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more
    than twelve months.

SOURCE

    (R.S. Sec. 102; June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942.)

CODIFICATION

      R.S. Sec. 102 derived from act Jan. 24, 1857, ch. 19, Sec. 1, 11
    Stat. 155.

AMENDMENTS

      1938 - Act June 22, 1938, reenacted section without change.