                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
    CHAPTER 6--CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
 
Sec. 192. Refusal of witness to testify or produce papers

    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.

(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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 194 of this title.
