{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=649d9652-0955-464b-bebb-76ca3f4d045d", "Lee Responds to Presidents Statement on Net Neutrality", "2014-11-10", "2014", "2014-11", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Mike Lee", "L000577", "www.lee.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON  Today, Senator Mike Lee released the following statement in response the Presidents announcement on net neutrality:\r\nThe Presidents suggestion that the FCC reclassify the Internet as a public utility, and subject it to the most pervasive and suffocating kind of government regulation, is dangerous. The Internet has flourished precisely because it has been open and free of just this kind of government control. The Presidents policy would threaten to break the Internetand stifle innovation in the most vibrant sector of our economy.\"\r\nTo keep creating jobs and opportunities for the American people, the Internet needs to be free, and protected  by Congress if necessary - from another dysfunctional government takeover.\"\r\nCritics of the status quo are right to push for reform and its been almost twenty years since Congress updated The Communications Act. But net neutrality is a regulatory framework designed for railroads and telegraphs. We cant condemn a regulatory framework from the 20th century to replace it with one from the 19th! What we need is to ensure we are protecting consumers and competition across this sector, putting neither producers nor providers, but consumers at the center of the Internet economy.\"\r\nSenator Lee is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.", 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.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=649d9652-0955-464b-bebb-76ca3f4d045d"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.829362940043211, "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"}