Senate To Look at Network Neutrality Rule

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 4-19-16

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing April 20 on federal rulemaking and the “administrative state.” Among the topics being addressed is the FCC’s network neutrality rulemaking, which Republicans have been highly critical of, including the perceived pressure from the Obama Administration to reclassify ISPs under Title II common carrier regs.

Witnesses at the hearings will be: Jonathan Turley, professor of public interest law at George Washington University; Randolph May, president of the Free State Foundation; Bradford Campbell, counsel, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP; William Kovacs, senior VP, technology & regulatory affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Robert Weissman, president, Public Citizen.

Elsewhere on the network neutrality front, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit released a trio of decisions Tuesday, but still no sign of a decision on ISPs’ challenge to the Open Internet order, which was argued Dec. 7.  » Read More