Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring before the House H.R. 2831, a bill to make technical amendments to update statutory references to provisions classified to chapters 44 through 47 of title 50, United States Code. As I previously stated, the Office of Law Revision Counsel must occasionally undertake editorial reclassification projects to reorganize areas of law that have outgrown their original boundaries or to eliminate organizational units that are no longer efficient. H.R. 2831 reflects yet another of the office's editorial reclassification efforts, and I thank Ranking Member Conyers for cosponsoring this bill as well. H.R. 2831 will update statutory references to provisions classified to title 50. The Office of Law Revision Counsel has prepared this bill and submitted it to the committee as part of the office's ongoing responsibility to maintain the code and assist the committee in the revision and codification of Federal statutes. In May of 2013, title 50 was editorially reorganized to set forth more clearly the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, the National Security Agency Act of 1959, and certain other related statutes. No statutory text was altered in the reorganization; the provisions were merely transferred from one place to another in title 50. The change was necessary to improve the organizational structure of the material in the United States Code.…”