[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 70 (Thursday, April 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2060]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         KEEPING OBSCENE AND INDECENT CONTENT OFF OUR AIRWAVES

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, John Adams said our Constitution is fit 
for a moral and religious people, and is wholly inadequate to the 
government of any other.
  The average American watches about 30 hours a week on broadcast TV. 
And, of course, what starts on broadcast TV winds up on other screens 
as well. The Federal Communications Commission is tasked with keeping 
obscene and indecent content off the airwaves.
  While there are some especially responsible parents who raise their 
children with no TV in the house at all, as a practical matter, 
broadcast TV affects the moral norms of the Nation.
  I have received complaints in my office, and rightfully so, about 
Cardi B and the GRAMMYs. They wonder why we are paying the FCC if they 
feel this should be in living rooms across the Nation.
  I realize that Kamala Harris has used her fame to promote this 
performer, but I assure the FCC that millions of Americans would view 
her performance as inconsistent with basic decency.
  Wake up, FCC, and begin to do your job. The moral decline of America 
is partly due to your utter complacency.

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