On the recordDecember 3, 2024
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 7339) to make revisions in title 51, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current, and to make technical amendments to improve the United States Code. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 7339 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Table of contents. Sec. 2. Purposes; restatement does not change meaning or effect of existing law. Sec. 3. Revision of title 51, United States Code. Sec. 4. Technical amendments. Sec. 5. Transitional and savings provisions. Sec. 6. Repeals. SEC. 2. PURPOSES; RESTATEMENT DOES NOT CHANGE MEANING OR EFFECT OF EXISTING LAW. (a) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are-- (1) to make revisions in title 51, United States Code, as necessary to keep the title current; and (2) to make technical amendments to improve the United States Code. (b) Restatement Does Not Change Meaning or Effect of Existing Law.-- (1) In general.--The restatement of existing law enacted by this Act does not change the meaning or effect of the existing law. The restatement incorporates in title 51, United States Code, various provisions that were enacted separately over a period of years, reorganizing them, conforming style and terminology, modernizing obsolete language, and correcting drafting errors.…