The House of Representatives is considering H.R. 8665, the “National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Act of 2022.”
The purpose of this proposal, according to congress.gov., is to remove “gendered pronouns from the United States Code pertaining to the responsibilities of the Archivist and other senior officials at NARA.”
The NARA bill was originally introduced in August by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) with bipartisan support, including Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) as well as Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), Katie Porter (D-Calif.), Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), and Danny Davis (D-Ill.).
While the NARA bill was referred out of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and brought to the floor on Dec. 12 on a suspension of the rules, the action was postponed until Dec. 13 for reasons that aren’t entirely clear….}