Congressional Record, Senate Floor Amendment No. 420 (The Helms Amendment)
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Title
Congressional Record, Senate Floor Amendment No. 420 (The Helms Amendment)
Subject
Censorship;
Federal aid to the arts;
Obscenity (Law);
Homophobia
Description
Legislative Transcript, Senate Floor Amendment No. 420 7-26-89. It provides the specific language of Senator Jesse Helms’ viscous speech against the ‘Kissing Doesn’t Kill’ campaign that inserted the strident language on NEA funding and essentially recriminalized the artwork.
Creator
U.S. Senate;
Helms, Jesse
Source
https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Helms-Amendment-420.pdf?locale=en
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Date
1989-07-26
Relation
Censored: "Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greed and Indifference Do"
Format
PDF;
Text document
Language
EN
Type
Text;
Legislative records
Citation
U.S. Senate; and Helms, Jesse, “Congressional Record, Senate Floor Amendment No. 420 (The Helms Amendment),” Omeka, accessed June 4, 2026, https://omeka.ischool.utoronto.ca/items/show/692.