Marsha Blackburn: “This amendment would prohibit funds made available by the act from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any…”

“This amendment would prohibit funds made available by the act from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any of the rules proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted by the FCC on March 31, 2016. That is order FEC 16-39. It is intended to regulate ISP consumer privacy obligations. {time} 2200 Mr. Chair, there are two problems with the FCC's actions that warrant a delay in the adoption of rules by the agency. First, the FCC's proposed rules are extreme and go well beyond anything they should be doing in this space, and it is a bipartisan concern. In May, Democrats Bobby Rush, Gene Green, and Kurt Schrader joined several Republicans in a letter to all of the FCC Commissioners and voiced strong concerns that the FCC's proposed privacy rulemaking ``intends to go well beyond'' the traditional framework that has guarded consumers from data practices of Internet service providers and ``ill-serves consumers who seek and expect consistency in how their personal data is protected.'' The FTC has traditionally been our government's sole Internet privacy regulator. A dual privacy enforcement model will create confusion within the existing Internet ecosystem. The FCC simply doesn't have the requisite technical expertise to regulate privacy.…”