{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=47d0af72-4917-4daa-85a7-f374cb63e3be", "Senator Hatch Responds to President Obamas Net Neutrality Statement", "2014-11-10", "2014", "2014-11", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Orrin Hatch", "H000338", "www.hatch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Salt Lake City, Utah\u2014Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, current member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, made the following statement on net neutrality:\r\n\u201cIn a 2009 Wall Street Journal op-ed about the importance of stopping net neutrality, I wrote that \u2018the Internet has grown because of a virtuous and mutually beneficial circle: network operators provide ever-increasing speed and bandwidth; content providers one-up each other with game-changing innovations; and consumers adapt and adopt at lightning speed.\u2019 \u00a0In the five years since, the Internet has only continued to expand. \u00a0Yet the President now seeks to use 80-year-old regulations to control that incredible growth. \u00a0It\u2019s not 1934, and we are not dealing with telephones you hold in two parts. \u00a0I\u2019m proud of the work Senate Republicans have done to lay out an agenda for encouraging growth and innovation here in America, and we must defend against the use of a decades-old regulatory framework that would hurt that progress.\"\r\nAs Chairman of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, Sen. Hatch has been a strong voice against net neutrality. In the next Congress, Sen. Hatch will focus on a pro-tech, pro-innovation agenda that relies heavily on a free and open internet.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=47d0af72-4917-4daa-85a7-f374cb63e3be"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.323614899069071, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}