Chairman Walden vows to fight 'illegal' Internet rules

The Federal Communications Commission has reached beyond its jurisdiction and needs to be reined in, according to House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR). Chairman Walden attacked the agency for expanding its power with new network neutrality regulations and said Congress will flex its muscle to fight them.

The new rules are “a total overreach,” Chairman Walden said. “I think it’s illogical and illegal. It didn’t have to be this way.” “It is a fiction that the FCC is an independent agency anymore,” he added, echoing complaints of Republicans who say the agency has been bullied by the Obama Administration. ”It is a relationship directly out of the White house, as we now know, and that is tragedy for the professionals at the FCC.”