[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 34 (Thursday, March 23, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1288]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PORNOGRAPHY: A CANCER EATING AWAY AT THE AMERICAN FAMILY

  (Mr. LARGENT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LARGENT. Mr. Speaker, I stand this morning appalled at a cancer 
that is eating away at the American family. That cancer is illegal 
pornography.
  Federal law prohibits interstate transportation and distribution of 
this material. Through the Internet, the family rooms and home offices 
of our Nation have turned into the worst porn shop you can imagine. The 
fact is that America's children and families have been assaulted by 
more obscene, lewd, and disgusting material than imaginable just 8 
years ago. For instance, when a child doing research types in 
whitehouse.com, what do they see? Illegal pornography.
  The revenues that illegal pornography rakes in are more than all the 
money generated by rock and country music combined. And how has the 
Department of Justice responded? We have seen a drop in the rate of 
prosecutions of illegal pornography of nearly 75 percent since 1992.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to call on the Department of 
Justice to begin aggressively prosecuting illegal pornography for the 
long-term health of our children and the soul of our country.

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