American Commitment Presses Lawmakers on Net Neutrality Legislation
American Commitment has helped orchestrate more than 1.6 million letters to Capitol Hill from upward of 540,000 people slamming the FCC’s net neutrality order, the group said, not giving details on who sent the missives. The conservative group focuses on…
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free-market issues. "It's clear that Americans are outraged that the free-market Internet they know and love is on the brink of being reduced to a public utility, and they are watching Congress very closely,” President Phil Kerpen said in a statement. “They are joining us in demanding legislative action to stop [President Barack] Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet." The letters organized by American Commitment request either “bipartisan compromise” legislation on net neutrality or defunding through the appropriations process. American Commitment also cited recent remarks from Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, who told Politics 365 he wants a legislative response to net neutrality. The American Commitment website hosts the form letter guiding people on writing to Congress.