Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in part, the letter says: The FCC enacted these Net Neutrality rules despite a complete lack of Congressional authorization and after being told by a court that they lack jurisdiction. Remember, this court, in the Comcast case, basically said to the FCC: You and all the other regulatory agencies that are independent must have specific authority from Congress to regulate in this area. They found in the Comcast case they did not have such jurisdiction. Once again, citing from the letter in support of passing S.J. Res. 6-- which is signed by Grover Norquist, Phil Kerpen, David Williams, Thomas Schatz, and Mario Lopez--it says: The FCC's order also runs contrary to the broad and bipartisan conversation in Washington about how best to grow the economy and spur job creation. President Obama and Members in Congress on both sides of the aisle have called to rein in overbearing regulations that harm economic growth. Here we have yet another regulation on top of the EPA and the NLRB and the NMB coming forward to put a damper on our economy. Mr. President, I would like to read from an opinion piece written by Phil Kerpen, who is with the Americans for Prosperity, and I thought this was relevant to the debate. Network neutrality sounds nice. Originally, it was the idea that all of the traffic . . . that travel over the networks that comprise the Internet should be treated exactly the same way.…”