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Making Technical Amendments to Update Statutory References to Title United States Code

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 6, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Legal

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Mr. Speaker, as the chairman has indicated, this bill makes technical amendments to title 2 of the U.S. Code in order to update statutory references and was crafted by the House Office of Law Revision Counsel, which is charged with developing and keeping current the United States Code.

This is really an enormous task. On average, Congress passes into law more than 6,900 pages of new public law each year. As that happens, some areas of the law get jammed into the code and become difficult to navigate. So this bill, along with the two that follow, just make it easier to read. It doesn't make any substantive changes whatsoever, and I support this legislation.

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Conyers for the work they put in to accomplish this fix.

I yield back the balance of my time.

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