Jeff Sessions - responds to Senate Judiciary today - digging deeper

[Princess Turandot]

9. Giving false information to Congress is a felony, *whether under oath or not*. There are 2 ...

separate statutes that come into play here. Section 1621 relates to false testimony under oath, which is perjury. Section 1001 covers testimony which is not under oath:

§ 1001. Statements or entries generally(a) Except as otherwise provided in this sec-tion, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdic-tion of the executive, legislative, or judicialbranch of the Government of the United States,knowingly and willfully— 1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by anytrick, scheme, or device a material fact; 2) makes any materially false, fictitious, orfraudulent statement or representation; or 3) makes or uses any false writing or docu-ment knowing the same to contain any mate-rially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statementor entry

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2014-title18/pdf/USCODE-2014-title18-partI-chap47-sec1001.pdf

An explanation of this from CNBC: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/07/what-happens-if-you-lie-to-congress.html