HR 6822 Introduced – 44 USC Update

Last month, Rep Khanna (D,CA) introduced HR 6822, the National Archives and Records Administration Modernization Act. The bill would remove a variety of male pronouns from eleven different sections in 44 USC. No funding is authorized.

This bill definitely does not fall within the normal range of topics covered in this blog, but I thought that it would be an interesting look at the variety of legislation that gets introduced by Congresscritters every year. While it would be easy to ignore this bill as a piece politically correct gender-speak, the increasing number of females filling positions of authority in the Federal Government (and about time too) does make the use of gender limiting pronouns both politically and legally suspect. The crafters of this bill did not try to saddle us with the ‘he/she, or him/her’ nonsense, or the more grammatically correct ‘they’ or ‘them’ terminology, instead they replaced the pronouns with the title of the person to whom the statute refers.

Unfortunately, I suspect that there will be significant knee-jerk opposition to this bill on the part of a significant portion of the Republican caucus as part of their opposition to all things ‘woke’ or diversity related. I do not expect this bill to move forward, either in committee or before the full House.

There will be no additional coverage of this bill in this blog.