Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski faced a harshly skeptical House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Feb. 16 over his agency’s new rules for net neutrality, an issue that continues to drive a wedge between Republicans and Democrats in Congress and on the FCC.
Genachowski and the four other FCC commissioners appeared before the subcommittee for the first time to testify about the rules, which House Republicans have endeavored to overturn with either an amendment to the continuing resolution or a “resolution of disapproval” under the Congressional Review Act.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the full committee, ...
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