The FCC’s net neutrality rules are an example of President...
The FCC’s net neutrality rules are an example of President Barack Obama’s “continuous disregard for legislative authority” (http://xrl.us/bnvo5p), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said in a report released Tuesday. Cantor’s report, which details a long list of executive actions…
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that constitute what he called Obama’s “imperial presidency,” details how the FCC “sought to impose new network neutrality rules on the Internet.” “In 2010, a Federal court struck down the FCC’s first attempt to regulate the Internet; noting that the FCC lacked authority to issue such regulations,” the report said. “Then-Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) introduced legislation to provide such authority. Despite the fact that the legislation was not enacted, the FCC proceeded anyway with new net neutrality rules. Businesses negatively impacted by these new regulations have been forced to go to court once again to defend against regulations that the agency has no authority to issue.” Neither the White House nor Waxman’s office would comment.