Posted on 03/05/2015 8:06:42 AM PST by GIdget2004
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and 19 other Republicans are backing legislation to block the Federal Communications Commission’s new rules on net neutrality.
Blackburn's two-page bill, introduced Tuesday, would make sure that the FCC's regulations approved last week would have "no force of effect." It would also restrict the commission from approving any new regulations that are substantially similar, unless Congress first authorized it.
The bill's 19 co-sponsors include most of the Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, which has jurisdiction over the agency. That includes Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio), vice chairman of the subcommittee. "My legislation will put the brakes on this FCC overreach and protect our innovators from these job-killing regulations," Blackburn said in a statement.
Noticeably absent are the subpanel's chairman, Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), and full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.). House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), also a member of the subcommittee, was one of the few that did not sign on to the bill.
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Why? What’s the point in making any laws?
Yes, I am becoming jaded.
Meaningless with a President who will veto, but the Congress will not do what he must to fight back.
I suppose the Republicans will agree to support this, too.
Big deal, all he will do is veto it. Yawn.
will the FCC ever release the New Rules they voted for or are they waiting for Obama and Friends to write them
All the democrats and just the right number of Rino’s will vote against it; that’s just the way it is...
Yeah, good luck with that.
I believe the GOP has only one option to fight Obola, but they refuse to fight for our ex-country. The only weapon that is available, in the face of this tyrant, is to stop funding the offending illegal actions of the government. That means shut down those parts of the government.
Since the GOP refuses to use the only tool they have, they might as well go on vacation and stay there. We won’t have a country left when they think about returning, but that is the result we’ll get with them passing laws that will never pass the Senate and if passed by the Senate would never be signed by Obola anyway.
All this GOP noise is make work, theatre, call it what you will - the results are nothing.
Upton, the Chair, also gave us government-dictated light bulbs. Don’t see him doing anything to undo this
They will trim your toe nails as your leg is eaten by gangrene.
Exactly. Exec orders are “OK” -—then, the attempt to pass countervailing law fails. A nauseating pattern.
We need a constitutional amendment that says any government agency that wishes to hand down a regulation, that regulation must be submitted to congress, as a stand alone bill (no attaching it to any other legislation so it cant be hidden and snuck in nor held hostage to other amendments) for a vote. It must pass both houses of congress. And if passed, has to be signed by the president (the president can also veto it if he chooses).
No more of this handing down arbitrary regulations that is automatically law without having been passed by congress.
Being subject to secret laws (and these “rules” have the force of law) is a sure sign of tyranny.
The GOP will roll-over on this, too, the first time someone say “Boo!”.
Yep...and Mitt Romney would be doing the exact same thing...right?
Hope you losers who stayed home in 2012 are happy with your decision. I guess it was worth it to you to allow a Marxist 4 more years to finish his destruction of our nation.
Pfft!
If the “money boys” want Obamanet, we will get Obamanet. The GOPE only cares about money, period!
They need to tie the amendment to the Debt Ceiling Bill or some other Must Pass bill. That’s the only way it will work.
Though I applaud her for introducing a two-page bill.
Has been years since they voted on anything under 300 pages.
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