Political Quotes

“Madam President, last week, the Democrat majority on the Federal Communications Commission voted to classify broadband internet service as a ``telecommunications service'' under title II of the Communications Act. This is an effort that is known as net neutrality. Now, the internet has been under title I, an information service, but our Democratic colleagues at the FCC and the Democrat administrations have sought to put this under title II and regulate it like they do the telephone line. This action is nothing less than a Big Government takeover of the internet, which will decrease investment in broadband and hurt the American people's access to high-speed internet. Now, how do we know this? Here is how: Under President Obama, the FCC enforced the failed regulation on the American people between 2015 and 2017, with harmful consequences. So we have done this before. Now, back then, Democrats claimed that net neutrality was desperately needed to prevent internet service providers from blocking content, throttling speeds, and creating fast lanes that favored users who can pay for access. One Democrat Senator argued during this debate back in 2015 that without the heavy-handed regulation, the internet would ``cease to exist.'' And another from their official Senate Democrat Twitter account claimed that without net neutrality, internet users would only ``get the internet one word at a time.'' Now, of course, we all know this never happened.…”