Senate votes to turn down volume on TV commercials

AP/Yahoo News ^ | 9-30-10 | AP

[ColdOne]

WASHINGTON – Legislation to turn down the volume on loud TV commercials that send couch potatoes diving for their remote controls looks like it'll soon become

[ColdOne]

Oh oh. One I may finally agree with.

[Marty62]

YIPPEE!!!!!

[Puppage]

Nice to see that they’re dealing with all the important stuff going on in the country.

[ColdOne]

YIPPEE!!!!! I agree. On the other hand, do we now have the "volume police?"

[Sybeck1]

I havn’t noticed this since I got my DVR.

[goldi]

They hide behind this nonsense because they haven’t a clue how to fix the big problems. Then they have the gall to say they accomplished something.

I wish my legislature would meet every three years instead of every year. They’re a menace.

[hampdenkid]

Is there no end to these people’s obsessive overreach? What a contemptible bunch of fascist pigs.

[Cementjungle]

that send couch potatoes diving for their remote controls

But that's the only source of exercise many people get in a day... now some people will just get even fatter.

[The Great RJ]

Congress has time for a useless junk bill and to have Steve Colbert make an ass of himself before a Congressional hearing but can’t find time to extend the Bush tax cuts and derail the largest tax increase in US history. Time to throw the bums out!

[Marty62]

Some are so over the top.

[ColdOne]

Some are so over the top. Yes they are. Some have gotten worse lately.

[napscoordinator]

Finally doing some real good.

[bolobaby]

Yeah - this annoys me but doesn’t the federal gubbermint have much more pressing issues to deal with?

Sigh.

[napscoordinator]

Largest tax increase in history? I always find that interesting when we are only going back to 2003 tax rates. We that tax cuts in 2003 the largest in history? I always wonder how people say such things. I am all for tax cuts but not the embellishment of how we get them.

[bigredkitty1]

I can do this myself. What are these idiots doing? I don’t need a nanny government telling private businesses what they can or cannot do.

Good freaking grief!

[G Larry]

Better watch out for whatever else is in that bill!!!

Any bill with a common-sense title is bound to have some Marxist agenda attached.

[keepitreal]

Very important legislation for all those forced to watch soaps all day due to lack of employment.

[chooseascreennamepat]

My thoughts exactly. Fox has a nasty habit of starting a commercial at a high volume and then softening it down. Very annoying. I don’t know about CNNMSNBC and the rest as I don’t watch them.

[Logical me]

This I agree on since the broadcast media seem to be ignorant. Blowing out speakers is crap. I have used the record program on my system and when they go to commercials I mute, skip, and put sound back on when the program continues. If the sad stupid sponsors realize that a huge majority just kill their commercials you would think they would have the brain to make the proper level on their own. So much for a huge majority of Americans, brain dead.

[KarlInOhio]

Did the Senate also pass the "Emergency Deck Chair Rearrangement Act" too?