Get ready to clear your Internet history and drag those nude photos into the trash can, federal workers!
A bill that would bar federal employees from viewing pornography on government computers passed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, as reports the Washington Examiner.
The legislation, called the Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act, was introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-S.C.) last month as a way to deal with the issue of federal workers watching porn at work, which was spotlighted in a 2014 inspector general’s report.
In particular, the report’s big revelation shed light on an Environmental Protection Agency employee who downloaded 7,000 files containing pornography and spent 2 -6 hours a day watching the explicit videos while on the job.
“Over the last several months it has become far too obvious that the type of behavior that was first highlighted at the EPA has been discovered over and over again, across a host of agencies,” Meadows said in a statement regarding the bill’s passage through the House committee. “To ignore this issue would not only condone an abuse of taxpayers’ dollars, but also embrace an unhealthy workplace. Today’s action should send a clear message that it is time for zero tolerance of this kind of behavior.”
Though Meadows introduced a similar bill to forbid porn at work last year, it failed to gain traction in Congress.
For federal employees worried about quitting porn cold turkey, there’s always good old fashioned Playboy Magazine.
