This survey has been a central plank of President George Bush's social policy: to stop teenagers having sex.

WASHINGTON — Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex within a few years as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress.

Also, those who attended the abstinence classes reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as those who did not attend the classes, and they first had sex at about the same age as their control group counterparts -- 14 years and nine months, according to Mathematica Policy Research Inc.

The federal government now spends about $176 million annually on abstinence-until-marriage education. Critics have repeatedly said they don't believe the programs are working, and the study will give them reinforcement.

However, Bush administration officials cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions from the study. They said the four programs reviewed -- among several hundred across the nation -- were some of the very first established after Congress overhauled the nation's welfare laws in 1996.

Officials said one lesson they learned from the study is that the abstinence message should be reinforced in subsequent years to truly affect behavior.

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"I really do think it's a two-part story. First, there is no evidence that the programs increased the rate of sexual abstinence," said Chris Trenholm, a senior researcher at Mathematica who oversaw the study. "However, the second part of the story that I think is equally important is that we find no evidence that the programs increased the rate of unprotected sex."

Well, we know the liberal answer is just to throw more money at the problem. Right? If it isn't working, spend more money.

Now, I have a few observations followed by a question. The Super Bowl fiasco was a matter of seconds. But just two days ago, Tuesday, here in Washington, D. C., cable and satellite providers carried 675 hours of pornography mostly on pay per view channels. Yes, a total of 675 hours of filth in one 24 hour period-and at all hours of the day. Now, here's the point. Cable and satellite use the public satellite orbital positions licensed by the FCC. They use microwave frequencies licensed by the FCC and owned by the people and the right of ways on streets also owned by the people. Cable and satellite television could not function without the public's right of ways or the public's spectrum...

No one sitting in this room can tell me it is in the public interest for cable and satellite providers to use the public spectrum and right of ways to pipe indecent and obscene programming into America's living rooms at all hours of the day without any constraints or limitations. But that is what is happening, day after day.

How to fix this moral decay? Empower the FCC; enact legislation; have an amendment to the Constitution if necessary. You are the lawmakers. You can do it...

I've talked with dozens of church clergy, and they would step to this microphone and tell you that the number one family counseling problem is pornography on cable, satellite and the Internet.

If you need voters' names on petitions to do something about this pervasive evil, just tell me how many millions. It will be done.

Please don't say that pornography is okay because it is scrambled. In fact, the people in the home who know how to use a remote control best are the kids, and you only need a remote control to click on a pay per view channel to unscramble those signals.

Finally, the proceeding of Multicast Must Carry for the public's digital TV licenses is over three years old at the FCC. It's the one thing necessary for the DTV transition to work, and it hasn't happened yet. The cable and satellite providers say they have no spectrum for the additional program streams that would provide companies like mine with the ability to offer more family friendly programming, minority oriented programming and faith based programming. Tell cable and satellite to get the pornography off. They've got room for our multicast channels.

The majority of American people have values and morals. The majority of America people do not want what they own to be used for pornography in any way.