House Commerce Committee Leaders Sound Alarm on FCC’s Attempt to Reclassify Internet -- Jobs and Innovation at Risk

House Commerce Committee Republican leaders wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the commission’s consideration of reclassifying broadband Internet as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act.

Full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and Vice Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) expressed their “grave concern” regarding the potential harm of such an ill-advised and unnecessary change.


House Commerce Committee Leaders Sound Alarm on FCC’s Attempt to Reclassify Internet -- Jobs and Innovation at Risk House Republicans to FCC: Take Title II Off Table (Broadcasting&Cable)