‘‘(2) LEGAL FEES.—In addition to any other 
penalties or sanctions, the court shall require that 
any defendant, other than a Government agency, 
held to have willfully failed to comply with any part 
of a congressional subpoena, pay a penalty in an 
amount equal to that party’s legal fees, including at-
torney’s fees, litigation expenses, and other costs. If 
such defendant if is an officer or employee of a Gov-
ernment agency, such fees may be paid from funds 
appropriated to pay the salary of the defendant. 
‘‘(d) WAIVER.—Any ground for noncompliance as-
serted by the recipient of a congressional subpoena shall 
be deemed to have been waived as to any particular infor-
mation withheld from production if the court finds that 
the recipient failed in a timely manner to comply with the 
requirements of section 105(b) of the Revised Statutes of 
the United States with respect to such information. 
‘‘(e) RULES OF PROCEDURE.—The Supreme Court 
and the Judicial Conference of the United States shall 
prescribe rules of procedure to ensure the expeditious 
treatment of actions described in subsection (a). Such 
rules shall be prescribed and submitted to the Congress 
pursuant to sections 2072, 2073, and 2074. This shall in-
clude procedures for expeditiously considering any asser-
tion of constitutional or Federal statutory privilege made 
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in connection with testimony by any recipient of a sub-
poena from a congressional committee or subcommittee. 
The Supreme Court shall transmit such rules to Congress 
within 6 months after the effective date of this section and 
then pursuant to section 2074 thereafter. 
‘‘(f) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘Government agency’ means any office or entity de-
scribed in section 105 and 106 of title 3, an executive de-
partment listed in section 101 of title 5, an independent 
establishment, commission, board, bureau, division, or of-
fice in the executive branch, or other agency or instrumen-
tality of the Federal Government, including wholly or part-
ly owned Government corporations.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for chapter 85 of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 1365 the 
following: 
‘‘1365a. Congressional actions against subpoena recipients.’’. 
SEC. 4. COMPLIANCE WITH CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 7 of title II of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 191 et seq.) 
is amended— 
(1) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 105. RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENAS. 
‘‘(a) SUBPOENA BY CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.— 
Any recipient of any subpoena from a congressional com-
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mittee or subcommittee shall appear and testify, produce, 
or otherwise disclose information in a manner consistent 
with the subpoena and this section. 
‘‘(b) FAILURE TO PRODUCE INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) GROUNDS
FOR
WITHHOLDING
INFORMA-
TION.—Unless required by the Constitution or by 
Federal statute, no claim of privilege or protection 
from disclosure shall be a ground for withholding in-
formation responsive to the subpoena or required by 
this section. 
‘‘(2) IDENTIFICATION OF INFORMATION WITH-
HELD.—In the case of information that is withheld, 
in whole or in part, by the subpoena recipient, the 
subpoena recipient shall, without delay provide a log 
containing the following: 
‘‘(A) An express assertion and description 
of the ground asserted for withholding the in-
formation. 
‘‘(B) The type of information. 
‘‘(C) The general subject matter. 
‘‘(D) The date, author, and addressee. 
‘‘(E) The relationship of the author and 
addressee to each other. 
‘‘(F) The custodian of the information. 
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‘‘(G) Any other descriptive information 
that may be produced or disclosed regarding 
the information that will enable the congres-
sional committee or subcommittee issuing the 
subpoena to assess the ground asserted for 
withholding the information. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section the 
term ‘information’ includes any books, papers, documents, 
data, or other objects requested in a subpoena issued by 
a congressional committee or subcommittee.’’; and 
(2) in section 104, by striking the period at the 
end and inserting the following: 
‘‘, or the Attorney General for the District of Colum-
bia, in which case, notwithstanding section 23–101, Dis-
trict of Columbia Official Code, the offense may be pros-
ecuted by the Attorney General for the District of Colum-
bia, and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than 
$1,000 and imprisonment of not more than 12 months.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for chapter 7 of title II of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘105. Response to congressional subpoenas.’’. 
SEC. 5. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act may be interpreted to limit or 
constrain Congress’ inherent authority or foreclose any 
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other means for enforcing compliance with congressional 
subpoenas, nor may anything in this Act be interpreted 
to establish or recognize any ground for noncompliance 
with a congressional subpoena. 
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