CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON THE LEGISLATIVE ROLE OF CONGRESS IN GATHERING AND 93-215 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, TUESDAY, MARCH 27 Printed for the use of the U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1973 JOINT COMMITTEE ON CONGRESSIONAL OPERATIONS CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATOR LEE METCALF, Montana, Chairman REPRESENTATIVE JACK BROOKS, Texas, Vice Chairman HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut MIKE GRAVEL, Alaska JESSE A. HELMS, North Carolina EUGENE F. PETERS, Executive Director (II) CONTENTS Chairman Lee Metcalf, U.S. Senator from the State of Montana__. Vice Chairman Jack Brooks, Representative in Congress from the Hon. James C. Cleveland, Representative in Congress from the Testimony of— Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina_ Material submitted for the record: Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina; proposed legislation: Congressional Free Speech Act of Hon. Arthur J. Goldberg, attorney, Washington, D.C., former As- sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations__ Hon. J.W. Fulbright, U.S. Senator from the State of Arkansas.... Material submitted for the record: Brief Amicus Curiae for the Senate of the United States, in the case of United States v. Gravel, No. 71-1026, Supreme Court of the Hon. Mike Gravel, U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska Alexander J. Cella, associate professor of law, Suffolk University, Robert G. Dixon, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Material submitted for the record: Hon. Mike Gravel, U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska; proposed legislation: Public Information Act of 1973_. Alexander J. Cella, associate professor of law, Suffolk University, Boston, Mass.; "The Doctrine of Legislative Privilege of Freedom of Speech and Debate: Its Past, Present and Future as a Bar to Criminal Prosecutions in the Courts," 2 Suffolk L. Rev. 1 (1968)-- Robert G. Dixon, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; memorandum, "Discussion of the Power of Congress to Modify the Scope of Congressional Immunity |