Reading Room Document

Authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to Pay for Private Counsel to Represent an Employee Before Congressional Committees

The Department of Health and Human Services may pay for private counsel to represent an employee who has been subpoenaed to appear before the staff of two congressional committees for a deposition at which agency counsel is not permitted to be present. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/1078076/download.

January 18, 2017