Robert Dornan: “I rise with a heavy heart against the violence chip. I am still thinking it through. Mr. Chairman, my conservative…”

“I rise with a heavy heart against the violence chip. I am still thinking it through. Mr. Chairman, my conservative colleagues who support the V-chip amendment should be reminded of a bit of recent history. Many of you who have served here a spell will remember our good friend Bill Dannemeyer. I doubt a more principled Member of Congress has ever served. I used to call him the ``last honest man in Congress.'' If Bill were here today he would respectfully oppose this amendment. I know this because I remember a time when Bill, clearly with tongue in cheek, offered an amendment to the clean air amendments being debated in the full Commerce Committee. Dannemeyer was tired of Mr. Waxman's regulatory morass and the punitive penalties he would put on any business daring to fall out of compliance with Mr. Waxman's world view, so our friend Bill Dannemeyer thought he would give his colleague a taste of his own medicine. Bill drafted a ``clean airwaves amendment'' to the Commerce bill to rid television of the perverted sex and buckets of blood violence which pollute the minds of latchkey kids and finally offend our public sensibilities.”