Congressional Right to Information Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Congressional Rights to Information Act - Provides, under the Legislative Reorganization Act, that every Federal agency shall keep each joint committee of the Congress or standing committee of either House of Congress fully and currently informed with respect to all matters relating to that agency which are within the jurisdiction of such joint committee or standing committee. Requires a Federal agency, on request of a joint committee of the Congress or of a standing committee of either House of Congress, or two-fifths of its Members, to submit any information requested of it relating to any matter within the jurisdiction of the joint committee or standing committee. States that when an officer or employee of the United States is summoned to testify or to produce information, before either House of Congress, or a joint committee of Congress, or a standing committee of either House, that officer or employee shall appear at the time and place specified and shall answer all questions propounded to him, or produce all information, unless in the case of an officer or employee of a Federal agency in the Executive Branch, either between the date of the summons and the date of the appearan…