{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=52b5a53d-b5c8-436c-bbb3-b4f4de0286bd", "Thune Statement on Presidents Net Neutrality Announcement", "2014-11-10", "2014", "2014-11", "Republican", "House", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tU.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today made the following statement on the president\u2019s call for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to craft additional net neutrality regulations:\r\n\u201cThe president\u2019s call for the FCC to use Title II to create new net neutrality restrictions would turn the Internet into a government-regulated utility and stifle our nation\u2019s dynamic and robust Internet sector with rules written nearly 80 years ago for plain old telephone service. The president\u2019s stale thinking would invite legal and marketplace uncertainty and perpetuate what has needlessly become a politically corrosive policy debate.\r\n\u201cIt is critical that the Internet remain open and that consumers are protected.\u00a0As it crafts new rules, the FCC should recognize the benefits of its highly successful light-touch regulatory approach to Internet policy and, most importantly, the FCC must follow the law.\u201d\r\nIn May, Thune and the entire Senate Republican leadership team sent a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler saying, \u201cRather than attempting further legal contortions to encumber modern communications networks with last century\u2019s rules, the Commission should work with the Congress to develop clear statutory authority and direction for the agency so that it can be a productive regulator for the 21st century marketplace", 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.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=52b5a53d-b5c8-436c-bbb3-b4f4de0286bd"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.557968022301793, "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"}