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Article: Senate Panel Heads For TV-Violence Vote.(Senate Commerce Committee )
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- September 18, 2000
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WASHINGTON -- Reacting to a highly critical government report on the marketing of violent entertainment to children, the Senate Commerce Committee is set to vote next week on a bill that would quarantine violent shows to late-night hours when children are least likely to be watching.
As proof that the report packed an immediate political punch, Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week assured bill sponsor Sen. Ernest Hollings (D.S.C.) that the committee would vote on the bill on Sept. 20 -- just nine days after the report's official release by the Federal Trade Commission.
Hollings, a longtime critic of media violence, supports ...