GOP pushes delay of Internet power transfer

House Republicans are pushing the Senate to delay the Obama Administration's plan for relinquishing America's oversight role over the Internet. Rep Greg Walden (R-OR) touted a House Republican bill that could pump the brakes on the Commerce Department’s plans to step back from its oversight role of the Internet’s Web address system and encouraged the Senate to take up the bill.

Rep Walden talked up the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act (DOTCOM Act), a bill from Rep John Shimkus (R-IL) that would require a congressional study before the administration could continue with its planned Internet oversight shift.