Hill Responses to FCC Broadband Proposal Split by Party

摘要

Democrats and Republicans in Congress differed sharply on FCC Chairman Julius nGenachowski’s plan to cement the commission’s broadband authority. Democrats stood by nthe FCC chairman. Republicans accused Genachowski of partisanship and said nreclassification would be a mistake. It’s a “government takeover of the Internet and yet nanother government takeover of a large portion of the private sector by the Obama nadministration,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. “Under this job-killing big ngovernment scheme, the Obama administration is seeking to expand the power of the federal ngovernment.” House Commerce Ranking Member Joe Barton, R-Texas, said, “Chairman nGenachowski might as well have said he was going to remake the Internet into an nold-fashioned, monopoly-era phone service."