Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., offered...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., offered an amendment to the Senate gun control legislation to authorize a study of the impact that violent videogames and video programming may have on children, a committee spokesman said Tuesday. The measure…
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mirrors legislation Rockefeller introduced in January called the Violent Content Research Act (S-134). If passed, the amendment would direct the FTC and the FCC to work with the National Academy of Sciences to determine if violent programming and videogames have any harmful effects on children. Rockefeller introduced similar legislation less than a week after the deadly elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., but it did not advance before the end of the last Congress. The legislation differs slightly from President Barack Obama’s executive order, which directed the Centers for Disease Control to conduct research into the relationship between videogames, media images and violence (CD Jan 17 p3).