A high-ranking House Republican spurned the net neutrality...

A high-ranking House Republican spurned the net neutrality bill introduced by her Democratic colleagues (CD Feb 4 p1). The bicameral legislation would restore, at least until the agency acts on a court remand, the net neutrality rules that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down in a mid-January decision. “If the FCC follows through on President [Barack] Obama’s wishes they will be constructing an Internet Iron Curtain that will restrict our online freedom and serve as an industry job-killer,” House Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in a statement Monday night. “It’s more than ironic that the same Administration that can’t figure out how to make Healthcare.Gov work now thinks that regulating the Internet like China and Russia will make things better for American consumers.” The bill, introduced Monday, is expected to be widely opposed by Republicans.