Rockefeller Wants to Add Media Violence Study to Gun Bill

Amendment faces up-or-down vote in Senate

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As the Senate inches closer to considering a bipartisan proposal to expand gun background checks, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) is offering to add his bill on the study of media violence as an amendment. 

The amendment, the Violent Content Research Amendment of 2013, mirrors the bill he reintroduced in January that directs the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services to work with the National Academy of Sciences to determine whether there's a connection between exposure to violent video games and programs and harmful effects on children. 

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