The counsel is appointed by the Speaker of the House and must prepare, and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary one title at a time, a complete compilation, restatement, and revision of the general and permanent laws of the United States which conforms to the understood policy, intent, and purpose of the Congress in the original enactments, with such amendments and corrections as will remove ambiguities, contradictions, and other imperfections both of substance and of form, separately stated, with a view to the enactment of each title as positive law.

"[1]The counsel takes each Act of Congress that covers more than one subject and makes the revisions indicated to each title of the United States Code.

[3] Other proposed titles collect the substance of all existing statutes on a particular subject from across the U.S.C.

The current counsel, Ralph V. Seep, was appointed by Speaker John Boehner, effective June 2, 2011.

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