Political Quotes

“I rise today to discuss Anna Gomez, one of President Biden's FCC nominees. If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical leftwing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as ``Obamacare for the internet.'' I strongly oppose her nomination, and I encourage my colleagues to do the same. The FCC exercises vast power over how Americans communicate and access information. It also has a history of abusing vague statutory provisions to pursue partisan policy goals. In the wrong hands, the FCC could go down a dark path of censoring speech and engaging in regulatory overreach. Under current Democrat FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel's leadership, that threat is not merely hypothetical. The FCC has engaged in unprecedented abuses of power, such as killing the multibillion-dollar Standard General-TEGNA transaction without a Commission vote, attempting to expand the Universal Service Fund spending in defiance of clear statutory limits, and holding valuable 2.5 gigahertz spectrum licenses hostage. Even more alarming, the FCC is now entertaining requests by radical leftwing groups to revoke a broadcast station's license for alleged ``misinformation'' and turning a routine FCC license renewal proceeding into a truth commission, an alarming assault on the First Amendment. And that is without a Democrat majority on the FCC.…”