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Git for US Legislation
Hacker News | Oct 28, 2026 | alansaber
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Outside the titles Congress has enacted as positive law, the code is only prima facie evidence of the law, and the Statutes at Large govern where the two differ.[1] The Office of the Law Revision Counsel publishes it as a series of release points, each current through a named public law, and keeps reorganising it; a bill to enact title 41 as positive law was introduced in September 2025.[2] Which public law wrote a sentence is recorded in amendment notes, in prose.
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