House Republicans oppose net neutrality rules, citingmicromanagementconcerns
October 5, 2009
In a letter to President Obama, two leading Congressional Republicans warned that the proposed tightening of FCC regulations on net neutrality would harm America's economy and could deter investment in broadband networks.
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and minority whip Eric Cantor of Virginia urged the president to ask the FCC to "refocus its priorities on examining the broadband market and completing the broadband plan. If the FCC micromanages broadband network management, broadband network investment will be in jeopardy."
Their complaints may fall on deaf ears, experts say, since President Obama has made net neutrality one of the main points of his information technology policy, along with the expansion of broadband internet coverage to all Americans.
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski made public the plans for new net neutrality rules last month, and Congressional Democrats have pushed for legislation that would achieve similar changes. Genachowski overcame further opposition from the House GOP when an attempt to withhold funds from the FCC as a way of delaying the net neutrality rules was scrapped.
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