Democrats in the House of Representatives – led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) \u2013 are pushing to reinstate Obama-era, big-government Title II regulations on the internet through a legislative procedure known as a Congressional Review Act (CRA). Now they are pressuring some Republicans to help them get to the 218 signatures needed to force a vote on the CRA.<\/p>\n
The Pelosi-Doyle CRA is not about sound internet policy; it is a politically motived, partisan effort to restore a stifling \u201cMother-May-I\u201d regulatory framework on the internet that has already proven to slow private investment in internet network infrastructure and cost well-paying jobs.<\/p>\n
Call your representative in Congress now.\u00a0 Tell her\/him to not become Pelosi’s next puppet on internet regulation.\u00a0 Ask her\/him to oppose the Pelosi-Doyle CRA.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Make no mistake, Title II regulation is NOT “net neutrality.” Indeed, there is widespread agreement and support \u2013 Republicans, Democrats and stakeholders alike \u2013 for the core principles of “net neutrality.”<\/p>\n But instead of working on commonsense, bipartisan legislation that will truly protect those principles while at the same time enabling the internet to thrive, Pelosi, Doyle and others want to politicize the issue and are pushing for the internet to be regulated like a public utility under a bureaucratic framework that was crafted way back in the 1930s, well before the internet was ever invented.<\/p>\n Adding insult to injury, the Pelosi-Doyle CRA gives a free pass to big tech companies, like Facebook and others, for how they treat consumer privacy and data online \u2013 what most consumers really care about when using the internet.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Pelosi and Doyle have managed to convince one Republican congressman thus far \u2013 Representative Mike Coffman (R \u2013 Colorado) \u2013 to sign their discharge petition and support the CRA.\u00a0 And right now, they\u2019re using Coffman\u2019s support to pressure other Republicans to join their effort.<\/p>\n