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# 42 U.S.C. § 1304 - Reservation of right to amend or repeal

## Text

The right to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of this chapter is hereby reserved to the Congress.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1104, 49 Stat. 648.)