John Hansen: “Mr. Speaker, H.R. 149 is a non-controversial bill that would make a number of simple technical corrections to the…”

“Mr. Speaker, H.R. 149 is a non-controversial bill that would make a number of simple technical corrections to the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 and other laws related to parks and public lands management. This bill is completely bipartisan and has wide support from the administration. In each congressional session, large numbers of individual pieces of legislation are passed and written into law. Often, small mistakes and errors are made in the drafting and printing of the final language that becomes the actual law. For example, an incorrect map number might be found or a period is missing from a sentence or a word is spelled incorrectly. This bill makes necessary technical corrections to language which has been written into many of our various laws and makes certain we have dotted the I's and crossed all the T's. In crafting this bill, we have discovered a few other technical corrections that needed to be made; and these are reflected in the bill, as amended. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 149.”