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TV violence bill heads to Senate next week
Thu May 10, 2007 7:31PM EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller is set to introduce legislation next week aimed at protecting children from violent television programming, an aide to the senator said on Thursday.
The bill is likely include some of the recommendations from a recent government report that concludes Congress could craft laws to regulate violent content without trampling on constitutional protections for free speech, the aide said.
Rockefeller, who has complained that violent television content is reaching "epidemic proportions," is a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, which is scheduled to hold a hearing on media violence next Thursday.
"(The bill) will be dropped before the hearing. It is imminent," said the aide, who asked not to be named and declined to describe what the legislation would include.
In 2005, Rockefeller, of West Virginia, tried to move legislation that would protect children......
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