{"id":8686,"date":"2011-02-17T14:39:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:39:29","slug":"house-senate-introduce-resolution-to-repeal-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8686\/house-senate-introduce-resolution-to-repeal-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"House, Senate Introduce Resolution to Repeal “Net Neutrality”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two months ago, when Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed its “Net Neutrality” proposal by a partisan 3-2 margin, we guaranteed<\/a> that it would inevitably be defeated via legislation, the courts or both.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, last month Verizon Communications challenged<\/a> the FCC\u2019s rogue vote in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the same court that unanimously ruled<\/a> last April that the FCC doesn\u2019t possess lawful authority to impose Net \u201cNeutrality.”\u00a0 Now this week, both the House<\/a> and Senate<\/a> introduced resolutions to repeal the FCC’s rogue action.\u00a0 The resolutions were introduced pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to review and overrule federal agency regulations via simple majority.\u00a0 Importantly, such resolutions are not subject to normal Senate filibuster hurdles.<\/p>\n

“Net Neutrality” constitutes a destructive and illegal federal intrusion into the Internet, which has managed to flourish just fine over the past two decades without Obama Administration micromanagement, thank you very much.\u00a0 The American public opposes it by a 2-to-1 margin<\/a>, courts have rejected it unanimously and Congressional opposition is bipartisan<\/a>.\u00a0 While “Net Neutrality’s” demise is a matter of when, not if, it is still absolutely critical that we as citizens maintain our resolve to spare the Internet sector from becoming bureaucrats’ tech version of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two months ago, when Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed its “Net Neutrality” proposal by a partisan 3-2 margin, we guaranteed that it would inevitably be defeated via legislation, the courts or both. Sure enough, last month Verizon Communications challenged the FCC\u2019s rogue vote in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,188,346,102,1219,148,24,28],"class_list":["post-8686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-free-market","tag-genachowski","tag-net-neutrality","tag-obama","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}