Net Neutrality

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Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, as you can see, we have quite a variety
of issues that we are talking about today. Whether it is the
President's executive amnesty and overreach, the overreach of the DHS,
or the veto of the Keystone pipeline, people are concerned about what
is happening.

Mr. Speaker, I want to turn our attention to another issue: the
takeover of the Internet by the Federal Communications Commission. We
just completed a hearing at the Energy and Commerce Committee on this
issue. I tell you there is great concern about what the FCC would do
with the Internet.

The Internet is not broken, and it does not need the Federal
Government to fix it. So people are rightfully concerned about that.
The FCC, in taking control of the Internet, would do a couple of
things. First of all, it would be a loss of some of our freedoms
because the FCC would reclassify the Internet to title II. Now, title
II of the Communications Act is the 1930s-era law that regulates
telephones and telecommunications. It would thereby subject the
Internet, which is an information service, to a host of taxes,
regulation, and international consideration. This is not the direction
we want to go with the Internet. Let's not use 1930s-era laws on an
information service. Let's make certain that the FCC delays their net
neutrality order and that we work together to keep the Internet open
and free.

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