[Deschler's Precedents, Volume 3, Chapters 10 - 14]
[Chapter 11. Questions of Privilege]
[E. Basis of Questions of Personal Privilege]
[Â§ 25. Charges Before a Governmental Agency or Committee]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                               CHAPTER 11
 
                         Questions of Privilege
 
              E. BASIS OF QUESTIONS OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE
 
Sec. 25. Charges Before a Governmental Agency or Committee

Communist Party Affiliation

Sec. 25.1 Testimony by a government witness before a government agency 
    charging a Member of the House as being a Communist gave rise to a 
    question of personal privilege.

    On Oct. 18, 1951,(13) Mr. Franck R. Havenner, of 
California, rising to a question of personal privilege, read, from the 
transcript of deportation hearing proceedings, certain testimony by a 
government witness in which he [Havenner] was identified as a former 
member of the Communist Party. Upon hearing the objectional matter, the 
Speaker (14) ruled that the transcript gave rise to a 
question of personal privilege.
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13. 97 Cong. Rec. 13483, 82d Cong. 1st Sess.
14. Sam Rayburn (Tex.).
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Alteration of Official Transcript

Sec. 25.2 A statement before a Senate committee which challenged the 
    integrity of an official transcript of a hearing before a committee 
    of the House, thus impugning the integrity of those Members 
    responsible for its preparation, gave rise to a question of 
    personal privilege.

    On May 21, 1959,(15) Mr. Clarence Cannon, of Missouri, 
presented as involving a question of personal privilege a statement 
made before a Senate committee inferring that he had provided the 
committee with an altered transcript of a hearing held before a 
committee of the House. Thereupon, the Speaker (~16), 
recognized Mr. Cannon on a question of personal privilege.
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15. 105 Cong. Rec. 8868, 86th Cong. 1st Sess. See also 105 Cong. Rec. 
        11587, 11588, 86th Cong. 1st Sess., June 23, 1959.
16. Sam Rayburn (Tex.).
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