{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/s193","title_num":"2","num":"§ 193.","heading":"Privilege of witnesses","status":null,"guid":"idd1bd83d9-7dda-11e7-999a-a10f27f1d75c","source_credit":"(R.S. § 103; June 22, 1938, ch. 594, 52 Stat. 942.)","seq_in_title":621,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch6","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2","level":"title","num":"Title 2—","heading":"THE CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch6","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 6—","heading":"CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id1b99bbed-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t2/s193\"><num value=\"193\">§ 193.</num><heading> Privilege of witnesses</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">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.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id1b99bbee-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\">(R.S. § 103; <ref href=\"/us/act/1938-06-22/ch594\">June 22, 1938, ch. 594</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/52/942\">52 Stat. 942</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id1b99bbef-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I76\" topic=\"codification\" id=\"id1b99bbf0-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Codification</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">R.S. § 103 derived from <ref href=\"/us/act/1862-01-24/ch11\">act Jan. 24, 1862, ch. 11</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/12/333\">12 Stat. 333</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id1b99bbf1-3271-11e3-b17d-c93c66c6eb41\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1938—Act <date date=\"1938-06-22\">June 22, 1938</date>, reenacted section without change.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-44","currency_date":"2013-10-10","congress":113,"law_num":44,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":3,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","08","11a","16","21","22","30","38","42","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}