Filtering Amendment Deleted from
Appropriations Bill
Members of the House and Senate appropriations committees have agreed to drop an Internet filtering amendment from the FY2000 Labor–Health and Human Service–Education appropriations bill. Offered by Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.), the amendment would have forced all federally funded computers in public and school libraries to filter obscenity and child pornography.
The New York Times’s Cybertimes Web site reported October 26 that this is the second consecutive year that Rep. Istook has failed to get his proposal passed as part of a budget bill. However, it noted that a similar measure is attached to the House version of a juvenile justice bill, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has sponsored legislation mandating filters for schools and libraries that receive federal e-rate subsidies for Internet connections.
Posted November 1, 1999.
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