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Letter Thanking Chairmen Upton and Walden for Broadband Spectrum Provisions

Mobile broadband is a major driver of economic growth, innovation, and job creation, but is threatened by spectrum scarcity. You have successfully negotiated a deal that will make high-quality spectrum available to the private sector to continue the mobile broadband boom, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Technology Legislative Alerts

Letter of Support: Herger-Crowley Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies, H.R. 2307

July 14, 2011 J

Dear Representatives Herger and Crowley,

On behalf of more than 1.7 million Americans for Prosperity activists in all 50 states, I write to commend you for your recent introduction of H.R. 2307, the Ethanol Subsidy Repeal Act. Your bill would finally bring an end the federal government’s tax subsidies for the use of corn-based ethanol as a source of fuel, a drawn-out and ultimately wasteful exercise in centralized economic planning that has been going on since the 1970s.

House Votes to Stop Job-Crushing FCC Internet Regs

April 08, 2011 J

The House voted 240-179 to overturn the FCC's job-crushing Internet regulations.

Republicans who voted to rubber-stamp the FCC's power grab (along with 177 Democrats) were Dave Reichert of Washington and Scott Rigell of Virginia. They should be ashamed. Even if they believe in net neutrality, they should not let Obama's regulators write the law in an end-run around Congress.

The six Democrats who voted to stand up to the FCC and the legitimate legislative process (along with 234 Republicans) were:

Stop Obama’s FCC Internet Takeover

April 04, 2011 J

On the darkest day of the year, December 21, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a party-line vote to regulate the Internet in the name of network neutrality. Chairman Julius Genachowski, who cast the deciding vote, is a former long-time executive of Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp (one of the leading corporate beneficiaries of the new regulations) and a close friend of President Obama.

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