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TPM: Dems Thwart GOP Plan To Kill Science Jobs Bill With Porn Provision

Republican plans to once again bedevil House Democrats by attaching an anti-porn provision to a science jobs bill were thwarted when Dems pulled some parliamentary trickery of their own.

Last month, we told you how Republicans very nearly killed the COMPETES Act by slipping an anti-porn measure into a motion to send the bill back to committee. The move scared several Democrats into voting for the Republican motion, which would have also cut much of the bill's funding, and leadership pulled the bill off the floor.

Read the entire Talking Points Memo article here.
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