FCC net neutrality rules face opposition from Congress

News Broadband United States 17 FEB 2011
FCC net neutrality rules face opposition from Congress
A number of Republican Congressmen have introduced a resolution aimed at overturning the FCC's latest net neutrality rules. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Representative Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Representative Greg Walden sponsored the resolution, Reuters reports. It would need to pass both houses of Congress and get president Barack Obama's signature before taking effect. The resolution takes a similar approach to Verizon's lawsuit against the FCC on the measures, claiming the regulator does not have the authority to make such rules. FCC commissioners appeared before the House subcommittee on Communications and Technology, part of the Energy and Commerce Committee, on 16 February and defended the measures. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski told lawmakers that almost everything the FCC does ends up in litigation but he expressed confidence in the latest internet rules.

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