Republican lawmakers question FCC budget after net neutrality vote
Source: PC World
Some Republican lawmakers questioned the U.S. Federal Communications Commissions new budget request Wednesday, with a couple of them attempting to tie the agencys funding to its controversial net neutrality vote days ago.
The FCCs vote last Thursday to impose new net neutrality rules on broadband providers will likely face a court challenge, Representative Bill Johnson, an Ohio Republican, said during a hearing before the communications subcommittee of House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Defending the net neutrality order will not be costless, Johnson said. Wouldnt the commission have saved a significant amount of money if it had let Congress legislate on net neutrality instead of moving forward an ill-fated ... order that it knows is going to be litigated for years?
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Most lawmakers at the hearing steered clear of the net neutrality debate and focused more generally on the FCCs fiscal year 2016 budget request. The agency is asking for US$530 million, $84 million more than in fiscal year 2015. A big chunk of the requested increase, $51 million, would be to move to new headquarters or to consolidate operations in a smaller space at its current building. Either of those options would yield a projected $119 million in savings over 15 years, Wilkins said.
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Once again, the GOP carries water for the big telecom companies.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)PSPS
(13,603 posts)It was "controversial" only among the top .01%, hence the corporate/state media must proclaim it as such.
imthevicar
(811 posts)That's a nice agency you got their, be a shame if anything happened to your funding.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)They threaten anything that gets in their way.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Anything in the way of corporate control must be demolished.
pampango
(24,692 posts)That slim Democratic majority makes all the difference in the world.
father founding
(619 posts)They are just doing the bidding of their corporate masters, yes massa,yes massa....
Marthe48
(16,975 posts)You Republicans want to punish the FCC for their vote? What part of fair do you not understand? Places like SE Ohio, that you supposedly represent, will not prosper without an Internet that remains accessible and affordable for individuals, schools, businesses and communities. You seem to be too old to understand the dynamics of Internet usage. You say you support small business, but by wanting to punish the FCC, you prove you support only big business and the rest of us are nothing. I hope you are out of office soon, because time after time, you make the wrong choice for the people who live in your district. It is like having a dinosaur deciding what he wants, not a thinking person who sees what his constituents need. I don't even know why I bother to write.