36,000 Uses of Dirty Words Have Senate Taking Soap to Comments (2)

Lawmakers are giving a – insert cussword here – about the language people are using in public comments to federal agencies.

After finding more than 36,000 examples of f**k and s**t just on the Federal Communications Commission’s Electronic Comment Filing System, a Senate subcommittee advised it and other agencies to clean up at least some of comedian George Carlin’s famous seven dirty words.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commerce Department also had instances of swear words in their public comment pages, according to an Oct. 24 report from the Homeland Security and Government Affairs investigations subcommittee, which held a ...