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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republicans Are Already Trying To Block The New Net Neutrality Rules
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/26/house-republicans-block-net-neutrality.html
House Republicans Are Already Trying To Block The New Net Neutrality Rules
By: Jason Easley
Thursday, February, 26th, 2015, 8:24 pm
House Republicans are trying to block the new net neutrality rules passed by the FCC, and are turning a victory for the open internet into an Obama conspiracy theory.
In a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the Republicans threatened to block the new net neutrality rules:
We are also troubled by the manner in which the Open Internet rules were formulated. On November 10, 2014, President Obama urged the FCC to impose Title II regulations on the Internet. Shortly thereafter, you began making statements in support of a Title II approach. Certainly, the timing of your support for Title II following the Presidents recommendation calls into question the degree, if not the existence, of the FCCs independence from the White House.
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We will not stand by idly as the White House, using the FCC, attempts to advance rules that imperil the future of the Internet. We plan to support and urge our colleagues to pass a Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving the Open Internet rules. Not only will such a resolution nullify the Open Internet rules, the resolution will prevent the FCC from relying on Title II for any future net neutrality rules unless Congress explicitly instructs the FCC to take such action.
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We will not stand by idly as the White House, using the FCC, attempts to advance rules that imperil the future of the Internet. We plan to support and urge our colleagues to pass a Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving the Open Internet rules. Not only will such a resolution nullify the Open Internet rules, the resolution will prevent the FCC from relying on Title II for any future net neutrality rules unless Congress explicitly instructs the FCC to take such action.
The practical problem is that any resolution that the House passes will have to clear the Senate, and would be vetoed by President Obama. House Republicans are on a quite a destructive roll. They are in the process of shutting down Homeland Security unless John Boehner decides to cave and pass a clean funding bill. The House has no chance of overturning President Obamas immigration executive orders, and they face roughly the same odds on blocking the FCCs new net neutrality rules.
The House majority has become a pit of anti-Obama conspiracy theories, and the Republicans from the House Judiciary Committee are already hard at work trying to turn the FCCs action into an Obama takeover of the internet. The fact that Republicans are advocating the exact opposite of an open internet should not be lost on anyone. The attempt to convert net neutrality into Obamanet is straight out the same playbook that labeled the Affordable Care Act an Obama takeover of healthcare, and the auto bailout as Obama Motors.
Republicans are doing what they do best. They are trying to take the democracy out of the internet and sell it to corporations. The internet is a relatively pure form of free market principles. Their effort to block net neutrality demonstrates that instead of liberty House Republicans are most interested in selling freedom to corporate oligarchs.
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House Republicans Are Already Trying To Block The New Net Neutrality Rules (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2015
OP
Do they realize how many people of all political affiliations support Net Neutrality?
herding cats
Feb 2015
#7
silverweb
(16,402 posts)1. Tell Congress: Don't sell out net neutrality!
Cha
(297,655 posts)2. Done.. mahalo silverweb!
William769
(55,147 posts)3. Whatever they pass, President Obama can veto.
elzenmahn
(904 posts)5. In theory, yes...BUT..
...they can attach it as a rider to a bill which Obama supports. And since the Executive does not have line-item veto...
William769
(55,147 posts)8. He's hip to their tricks.
Wouldn't be the first time and it damn sure won't be the last.
I'm a the glass is half full type of guy.
Cha
(297,655 posts)4. **** the gop****** Fallacious Fear Mongering
mahalo babsis
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)6. This congress hates America
herding cats
(19,567 posts)7. Do they realize how many people of all political affiliations support Net Neutrality?
This is political suicide with the youth vote for Republicans, are they really sure they want to do that?
moondust
(20,006 posts)9. Enemies of The People
Servants of The Oligarchy