[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1535 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1535

 To terminate any Federal employee who refuses to answer questions or 
           gives false testimony in a congressional hearing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2015

 Mr. Brooks of Alabama (for himself, Mr. Massie, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. 
 Pittenger, and Mrs. Lummis) introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To terminate any Federal employee who refuses to answer questions or 
           gives false testimony in a congressional hearing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safeguarding America's Congressional 
Oversight Act'' or the ``SACO Act''.

SEC. 2. CAUSE FOR TERMINATION WHEN GRANTED IMMUNITY.

    Any Federal employee who refuses to answer questions in a 
congressional hearing after being granted immunity shall be terminated 
from employment.

SEC. 3. CAUSE FOR TERMINATION WITHOUT WAIVER OF IMMUNITY.

    Any Federal employee who, in a congressional hearing, refuses to 
answer questions specifically, directly, and narrowly relating to the 
official duties of such employee, without being required to waive 
immunity with respect to the use of answers or the fruits thereof in a 
criminal prosecution of such employee, shall be terminated from 
employment.

SEC. 4. FALSE TESTIMONY CAUSE FOR TERMINATION.

    If three-fourths of the congressional body to whom the testimony 
was given finds that a Federal employee willfully or knowingly gave 
false testimony in a congressional hearing, then such employee shall be 
terminated from employment.
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