[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 120 (Monday, July 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7469]
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                               THE V CHIP

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I would hope that the 
Committee on Rules would make in order the Spratt-Markey-Moran-Burton 
amendment dealing with the V chip, which is the ability to provide 
parents greater say over what programs come into their home and to have 
the ability to lock those programs out should they desire that their 
children not be able to view those programs.
  Many in the telecommunications industry and certainly many in the 
networks fought this effort when it was offered on the floor of the 
Senate and were able to defeat it. We should empower parents to have 
the say, to have this control in their own home about the kind of 
programming that is coming into their programs, especially when so very 
often young children are left at home or are home for a good portion of 
the day while both parents are out working.
  Those parents should have the confidence that they can have some say 
to regulate the flow of programming, if they are concerned about 
violence, if they are concerned about sexual content of programs, they 
should have some say in that. They should be able to pick and choose 
for their children, not the networks and apparently not the sponsors 
that are not prepared to exercise self-control and to respect the 
rights of young children and of families.
  I hope that the Committee on Rules would make the amendment in order 
and Members of the House would vote for the V chip amendment.

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