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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Steve Rogers ([[Captain America (comics)]]) faces the Committee on Super Human Activities, who demand that he work only for them since the U.S. government legally owns the CA identity. He quits instead.
* Tony Stark ([[Iron Man]]) faces a senate committee himself in a 1960s story and the questioning proves so long and arduous that Stark collapses on the stand. When an attending doctor opens Stark's shirt, finds his chestplate/external pacemaker and it is finally exposed to the world that the tycoon is a ''very'' sick man.
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'': Several of the original Minutemen are dragged in front of the ([[Truth in Television|once-real]]) House Un-American Activities Committee. Hooded Justice refuses to participate and vanished without trace. To the story's modern day (1985) nobody knows who he was.
* The [[Justice Society of America]] (the [[Justice League]]'s predecessors) were called before a committee and accused of being Communist sympathizers. Depending on the continuity, this may have been the actual Senator McCarthy or a substitute. They chose to disband and retire rather than comply with the new [[Super Registration Act]]. Later, we get to see an alternate universe where the JSA did sign up. ([[Bad Future|It didn't end well.]])
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* ''[[Airwolf]]'' has Archangel showing the titular chopper to a congressional demonstration when Dr. Moffett steals it, killing several people and blinding Archangel in one eye.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and Senator Kinsey, who chairs the committee that sets the SGC's budget. A later episode has Hammond figure out why Kinsey is pushing for the Stargate to be handed over to the NID when he learns he's moved to the committee that directly controls that.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' has several arcs where Josh, Leo and almost every other character was dragged to testify before a committee or another.
** From the episode ''Ways and Means'':
{{quote|'''C.J.''': Leo, we need to be investigated by someone who wants to kill us just to watch us die. We need someone perceived by the American people to be irresponsible, untrustworthy, partisan, ambitious and thirsty for the limelight. Am I crazy or is this not a job for the U.S. House of Representatives?}}
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