- Targeted stakeholdersEnsures the official engrossed text matches intended statutory language, reducing drafting errors.
- Targeted stakeholdersReduces ambiguity that could complicate implementation by agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security.
- Targeted stakeholdersPromotes consistent language across related bills H.R.7147 and H.R.7148 for legislative records.
Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the engrossment of H.R. 7147.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
This House resolution directs the Clerk to correct the engrossment of H.R. 7147 by making a specific textual change in section 230(b) (a strike-and-insert).
It also directs that the correction be incorporated in the engrossment of H.R. 7148 pursuant to House Resolution 1014.
The resolution is procedural and does not itself change policy text beyond the directed clerical correction.
Procedural, narrow, no fiscal impact — highly likely to be implemented by the Clerk; not a substantive statute requiring broader legislative approval.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a concise and appropriately constructed procedural/housekeeping resolution directing a specific clerical correction to an engrossed bill. It identifies the responsible official, the place in the text to be amended, and the text to be inserted, and situates the correction with respect to related engrossments.
All agree it's largely procedural; liberal and conservative worry about substantive sneak-ins
Who stands to gain, and who may push back.
- Federal agenciesIf the correction changes meaning, it could unintentionally alter legal rights or agency authorities.
- Targeted stakeholdersThe textual change is applied without separate floor debate on any potential substantive effects.
- Targeted stakeholdersStakeholders may find later-applied corrections harder to track when monitoring legislative changes.
Why the argument around this bill splits.
All agree it's largely procedural; liberal and conservative worry about substantive sneak-ins
Viewed as a routine clerical fix; generally benign unless the correction substantively alters DHS authorities.
Interested in transparency about what text is being changed and why.
Cautious that technical corrections should not be used to sneak policy changes.
Seen as standard housekeeping to maintain accurate legislative text.
Supportive if strictly clerical and transparent; wants confirmation no policy was altered.
Values procedural clarity and minimal disruption.
Generally accepts as a procedural correction; however, wary if the change expands federal or DHS power.
Prefers assurances that no substantive policy or fiscal impact is introduced without debate.
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Procedural, narrow, no fiscal impact — highly likely to be implemented by the Clerk; not a substantive statute requiring broader legislative approval.
- Exact replacement language is ambiguous or missing in the text.
- Whether the correction has unintended substantive effects on bill meaning.
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All agree it's largely procedural; liberal and conservative worry about substantive sneak-ins
Procedural, narrow, no fiscal impact — highly likely to be implemented by the Clerk; not a substantive statute requiring broader legislativ…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a concise and appropriately constructed procedural/housekeeping resolution directing a specific clerical correction to an engrossed bill. It identifies the respons…
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