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VICE PRESIDENT GORE: Let me point out that next week, toward the end of next
week, I believe it's on March the 7th, the president's going to be hosting a
White House Conference on Youth Violence, looking at a lot of the other factors
involved.
But the fact that children, on average, before graduating from high school,
witness 20,000 simulated murders on a little box in their home, has to have some
effect, as all the studies indicate. And while there are many other causes of
the problem also, this is one, and it's one that, thanks to the president, is
finally going to be susceptible to a solution, and thanks to the industry for
taking the steps that they agreed to yesterday.
So we have to take each of the causes one by one.
And as the president was saying, these children here may have a different
perspective and certainly have something to -- something to add to this.
You were -- you were going to --
PRESIDENT CLINTON: I thought maybe we ought to start with Catherine (sp), next
to me, because Catherine Murphy (sp) actually passed the first V-chip bill --
(laughter) -- in the United States of America. I think you all need to know
that. It wasn't us; it was her. And so I think you ought to hear her story.
And I'd like to know how you came to propose this legislation and what you think
of it.
MS. CATHERINE MURPHY (SP) Well, I first discovered the project actually with
the aid of my father, who was working on the project with with -- (within the
PTA ?). And it interested me, so I contacted Jim Moran's office and asked for a
copy of the legislation that was in committee at the time, and he sent me the
House Bill 1807, (I think it was ?) And I took a look at that.
And going to this seminar at Girls Nation -- 96 girls from around the country
came and set up a mock Senate, and we were all responsible for proposing our own
piece of legislation, be it a resolution or a bill, on something that we thought
was important. And since I discovered this project and it caught my eye and --
I
decided that I would write my own version of the V-chip and submit at the
Girls Nation Senate. And so the first day we were there, you know, it went into
committee, and we had to defend it there, and it got through committee and got
onto. the floor, and I had to defend it there. And you know, it got through the
entire Senate, and I had a lot of support behind it and sent it to our
president, who didn't believe in government regulation of private industry
whatsoever, and she vetoed it. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT CLINTON: They 11 do that sometimes. (Laughter.) The but let --
let
me ask you, do you believe -- I want to -- I want to ask, and then I want to
sort of go around to the students here. How do you think the V-chip should be
used? And how much difference do you think there is in what -- in the age of
the children, in terms of the regulation of the programming?
MS. MURPHY: Well, particularly in my home, we find that -- I'm 17 and a senior
in high school, and my brother is 10 and a fifth- grader in elementary school --
there's a vast difference between the (four of us ?) between our TV-watching
habits. I am so involved in so many (different ?) school activities that
television is just not a high priority for me, and I don't find myself watching
a lot of television. I watch the news, and I watch (inaudible) -- and (it's
?) probably a little odd, (but it's not in ?) my age group. But you know, it's
not a very high priority for me, whereas the elementary schoolers will spend a
lot of time, I've noticed, I mean, a lot of time.
And when I baby-sit, I'd go over and baby-sit, and the parents would say, "Don't
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