Feds almost pay a price for porn

Feds almost pay a price for porn

House Democrats pulled an $85 billion technology bill on Thursday after Republicans attached an unrelated provision that would have prevented agencies from paying the salaries of government employees caught watching pornography on the job.

The 2010 America COMPETES Reauthorization Act would have provided significant federal investments in science research, training and education. But the bill got sidetracked when House Republicans employed a parliamentary measure that allows the minority party one opportunity to amend legislation before a final vote.

The Republicans' motion to recommit would have sent the legislation back to the House Science and Technology Committee with language prohibiting agencies from using federal funds to pay employees "officially disciplined for violations regarding the viewing, downloading or exchanging of pornography, including child pornography, on a federal computer or while performing official government duties."


The GOP changes also attempted to cut all new programs in the bill and freeze spending for existing programs at current levels.

Recent investigations by the inspector general of the National Science Foundation -- which would have seen its funding for general research double through the bill -- found instances of executives surfing porn on their government-issued computers.

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so they can't get any porn sites.

I am on a system right now that has pretty effectively blocked MOST pornographic content from comming from the internet. My job though includes continually trying to find vulnerabilities in it and I have come across a few that my superiors have yet to implement fixes for.

Of course it takes the US Army forever to do almost anything.

After all, their salaries are probably the ones that would be getting cut.

A lot of Repubs are a$$holes - that's the only word for it.