Debate on Net Neutrality White House Influence Continues
Jonathan Blake, retired partner at Covington & Burling, sent offices on the Senate Homeland Security Committee and its companion House committee copies of an exchange he had in articles for the Free State Foundation with Enrique Armijo, an assistant professor…
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at the Elon University School of Law. He reached out after the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s GOP staff report on the White House influence on the FCC net neutrality order (see 1603010066). Blake’s essay and the response from Armijo were both dated Dec. 22. “One aspect of the Net Neutrality controversy has attracted special attention, namely the appropriateness of the White House role in providing its views of the controversy to the FCC,” Blake said in a note to the Capitol Hill offices. “While this feature of the debate has attracted attention for over a year, the Senate Committee’s recent report has renewed the spotlight on this issue.” His exchange with Armijo in late-2015 essays “discusses the pros and cons of this issue from the limited point of view of the appropriateness of the executive branch’s role in agency rulemaking proceedings, specifically the FCC’s, and not the merits of its substantive positions on the issue,” Blake said.