FCC budget legislation may be marked up Wednesday in the...
FCC budget legislation may be marked up Wednesday in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services, said a spokesman for Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, a subcommittee member. He plans to rail against the FCC for its plan to reclassify broadband…
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transport under Title II of the Communications Act but may not offer his much-discussed amendment to ban the FCC from using appropriations for that purpose, the spokesman said. “He’s considering it, and he'll certainly raise the issue of the FCC regulating the Internet. But it’s not a sure thing that he'll be offering the amendment.” Subcommittee Chairman Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., didn’t comment on the markup’s timing. In a blog post over the weekend, Public Knowledge spokesman Art Brodsky said Culberson doesn’t have a firm grasp of telecom law. The Republican has “created his own reality in which he, the crusading Congressman, is saving the Internet from meddlesome, evasive, empire-building bureaucrats while fighting for justice and truth,” said Brodsky. But FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski doesn’t want to regulate the Internet, he said. “The FCC lacks the clear statutory authority to regulate the Internet,” responded Culberson in an e-mail. “It’s just not in the law, and the courts agree. I can’t support spending tax dollars on the FCC’s legal misadventures."