In October, the House passed a bill to reauthorize funds for the NEA with the directive that the organization could not fund obscene art. Rohrabacher introduced an amendment that would include specific guidelines on the kind of art projects that could not be funded, such as works that were sexually explicit or denigrated the American flag or religions; the amendment was rejected by a vote of 249-175. Rohrabacher stated his amendment was supposed to ensure that the federal government was ""not subsidizing obscenity, child pornography, attacks on religion, desecration of the American flag or any other of the outrages we have seen in the past'". By the time the House passed the bill, Rohrabacher had become known as " the House's most outspoken critic of the NEA".
In October the House passed a bill to reauthorize funds for the NEA with the directive that the organization could not fund obscene art Rohrabacher introduced an amendment that would include specific guidelines on the kind of art projects that could not be funded such as works that were sexually explicit or denigrated the American flag or religions; the amendment was rejected by a vote of 249-175 Rohrabacher stated his amendment was supposed to ensure that the federal government was ""not subsidizing obscenity child pornography attacks on religion desecration of the American flag or any other of the outrages we have seen in the past'" By the time the House passed the bill Rohrabacher had become known as " the House's most outspoken critic of the NEA"