Votes to get Justice Department to prosecute illegal pornography Washington Rep. Joe Pitts today to encourage the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute illegal pornography. It passed by a vote of 412 to 4. Over the last decade we have seen an explosion of pornography in this country, said Rep. Pitts. And with the advent of the Internet, an entire new medium has been found by pornographers.
Pornographers make more money each year than the rock and country music industries combined.
At the same time, federal prosecutions of violations of existing statutes have fallen almost to none. The Justice Department s own data indicate that the level of federal obscenity law enforcement dropped more than 80 percent during the first six years of the Clinton Administration. We hope that by providing them with this money, and telling them specifically what to use it for, they will begin, eight years into their administration, to enforce the law.