This morning's net neutrality hearing took ten seconds to turn adversarial. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) opened the House Judiciary Committee meeting with a series of broadsides against the Federal Communications Commission and its chair, Julius Genachowski, seated below him at the witness table.
The FCC's December order instituting basic net neutrality rules on wireline networks "circumvents Congress' lawmaking authority," said Goodlatte. It's "the role of Congress to make the laws… The open Internet order exceeds the FCC's power—Congress has never given the FCC the authority to impose this top-down" approach to Internet services.
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