Retiring Rep. Bart Gordon wins the internet with this comment:
"For anyone that is concerned about federal employees watching pornography, they just saw a pornographic movie. It's called; 'Motion to Recommit,'" Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) said. "It was a cynical effort to undermine an important bill for my 9-year-old daughter, for your kids and your grandkids."
He's talking about a GOP-sponsored motion that blocked passage of a science jobs and education bill. Republicans wanted to add a provision cutting off paychecks to federal employees who watch porn on their government computers. Rather than offering the amendment in any of committee hearings or the floor debate, they sprang it at the last minute, in a procedural move called a "motion to recommit," which sends the bill back to committee.
As a consequence, a bill funding major efforts to boost science education and scientific research will be stalled indefinitely.
Remember this next time someone says there isn't a Republican war on science.
It's the total fault of those losers Columbus and Magellan.... prior to them screwing things up the Earth WAS flat.