1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Congressional Subpoena Compliance and Enforcement Act of 2020 . 2. Findings The Congress finds as follows: (1) As the Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed, including in its July 9, 2020, holding in Trump v. Mazars, Congress’s power of inquiry—with process to enforce it—is an essential and appropriate auxiliary to the legislative function . Congress’s power to obtain information, including through the issuance of subpoenas and the enforcement of such subpoenas, is broad and indispensable . (2) Congress suffers a concrete and particularized injury when denied the opportunity to obtain information necessary to the exercise of its constitutional functions, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit correctly recognized in its August 7, 2020, en banc decision in Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives v. McGahn. (3) Accordingly, the Constitution secures to each House of Congress an inherent right to enforce its subpoenas in court. Explicit statutory authorization is not required to secure such a right of action, and the contrary holding by a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in McGahn, entered on August 31, 2020, was in error. 3. Enforcement of congressional subpoenas (a) In general Chapter 85 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1365 the following: 1365a. Congressional actions against subpoena recipients (a) Cause of action The United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, or a committee or subcommittee thereof, may bring a civil action against the recipient of a subpoena issued by a congressional committee or subcommittee to enforce compliance with the subpoena. (b) Special rules In any civil action described in subsection (a), the following rules shall apply: (1) The action may be filed in a United States district court of competent jurisdiction. (2) Notwithstanding section 1657(a), it shall be the duty of every court of the