Speech #1140065989

I hope we can all agree that the term "Oriental" no longer deserves a place in Federal law. Toward that end. this amendment strikes the offensive term from 42 U.S.C. 7141 and 42 U.S.C. 6705. two sections of Federal law written in the 1970s that fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Congress once found it appropriate to pass laws such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Geary Act. but we also found it appropriate to repeal them. Times change. What is acceptable changes. and this Congress more often than not yields to that change.