[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 96 (Tuesday, June 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5780]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     CHANGING THE DIET THAT IS POISONING THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, Americans have been reading much about the 
violence, the sex, the vulgarity that is on the media today. It is a 
constant diet, and it is children that are consuming that diet.
  We will offer legislation to the telecommunications bill when it 
reaches the floor, and I would hope that my colleagues would support 
that legislation because what it does is to empower parents to block 
out programs that contain explicit violence, gratuitous sex and 
vulgarity, even when those parents are not able to be home looking over 
the shoulders of their children to see what they are watching.
  We require that a V chip be inserted in all new manufactured 
television sets. This is not a burdensome requirement when produced in 
quantity. It is only about $5 per television set, but it is the kind of 
technology we ought to use to change the diet that is poisoning the 
minds of our children day in and day out.
  Mr. Speaker, I would appreciate my colleagues' support for this 
measure.


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