Posted on 02/21/2015 7:01:51 AM PST by kindred
Republicans in the U.S. Congress are demanding to know how much the White House influenced the Federal Communications Commission while the agency crafted net neutrality rules. The FCC has until Monday afternoon to produce unredacted email messages, focused on net neutrality rules, between FCC staff and officials with President Barack Obama’s administration, Representative Jason Chaffetz said in a letter to the FCC Friday. The Utah Republican is chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Committee. Chaffetz’s committee is “investigating the potential involvement of the White House” in the creation of proposed net neutrality rules that the FCC is scheduled to vote on next Thursday, he said in the letter. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will propose regulations that would reclassify broadband as a regulated telecommunications service instead of a lightly regulated information service. An FCC spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to a request for a comment on Chaffetz’s letter. Several congressional Republicans have accused the White House of improperly influencing the FCC net-neutrality rule-making process, after Obama called on the agency to reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility in November. Wheeler appeared to change his position and embrace that idea after the president urged the independent agency to do so, critics have said. But U.S. presidential administrations have repeatedly weighed in on FCC proceedings during the past 30-plus years, net neutrality advocate Public Knowledge has noted. Chaffetz’s letter to the FCC came just two days after Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee told Wheeler they were expanding an investigation into agency rule-making processes. The Energy and Commerce Committee’s probe covers a wide range of FCC process concerns beyond net neutrality, but new reports detailing White House contact with the FCC on net neutrality raise “additional concerns about whether the commission is managing its affairs with the
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The obamanation of America's desolation is working hard to bring the free internet under the control of government bureaucrats who will definatley raise prices for use by overtaxing it and will eventually do what they did to every good capitalistic enterprise, regulate and destroy the free exchange of Conservatives and Christians who know that the left in America are fools, liars, and thieves who do not abide our American Constitutional freedoms.
The EXEMPT and their undocumented Indonesian Tyrant
have already destroyed US security, US healthcare,
US Freedom, and the hopes of 300 million.
The meddling EXEMPT are clearly not done.
Oh, an investigation! Who cares GOP? The FCC has no legal authority whatsoever to regulate cable, or the internet, and simply declared they could.
Cut off 100% of their funding. That’s your only tool dillweeds. Investigations mean nothing.
Cut off 100% of their funding. That’s your only tool dillweeds. Investigations mean nothing.
Second.
100 percent!!!
Man, that was extremely well written!
B T T T
[Cut off 100% of their funding. That’s your only tool dillweeds. Investigations mean nothing.]
Yes indeed! Why he is not being impeached for the many lawless acitons he has committed against all Americans by the rino G.O.P. makes me wonder who the GOP really represents.
Net Neutrality Explained. Simply and Accurately!
by Steven Crowder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cLWgTIsMLM
1 - The Net is NOT BROKEN.
2 - The Government is INCAPABLE OF FIXING ANYTHING!
My guess is that most people who supported obamacare and belived the liar in chief and his allies are the very same people who will support this until they are taxed and intimidateded for the use of internet and intimidated by the communist left bureaucrats of America.
Steven Crowder talks about Net Neutrality on Stage Right Show
26MAY2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcm7v9r3Mnk
[1 - The Net is NOT BROKEN.
2 - The Government is INCAPABLE OF FIXING ANYTHING!]
Problem is that Congress, who should fight him tooth and nail will simply do what they usually do, obliviate and confiscate the monies of taxpayers.
Hey (GOP) here’s and Idea Stop playing games and Defund and Disband the FCC!
Net Neutrality is about Control and Nothing More! Stand for Freedom By the way whats the emergency???
The Enemy is within and until we deal with that Enemy we will Never be able to Deal with the Enemy’s outside the Nation!
Criticizing Obama will be a Beheading Offense ,without a trial
All I need to know is if Obama is for it, it is bad for America and I’m against it.
You “guessed” well!
Huh? Granted, the government should not be getting involved in restricting the internet, but at the same time, what’s wrong with Obama admin talking to the FCC? As a government agency, doesn’t it fall under the executive’s discretion to execute? Providing guidance on stuff is how the executive should be dealing with governmental agencies, no?
The government wants to control the internet and will raise taxes and hurt buisnesses as well as controlling the free speech of those they hate, like Conservatives and Christians and the Jewish people of Israel.
This will be obamacare of the internet and all who now support it will hate it excepting big business and their political allies of the democrat and rino parties.
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