Upton: FCC regulatory compass must be broken

Seeking the chairmanship of the House Commerce Committee, Rep Fred Upton (R-MI) is circulating a memo illustrating his conservative credentials with a pledge to crush the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) network neutrality ambitions by "breaking" its "regulatory compass."

The memo includes:

• "The FCC's regulatory compass must be broken as they continue in their unrelenting pursuit to impose so-called network neutrality regulations, regardless of whether the agency has the legal authority for such a blind power grab, and whether such regulations will actually undermine the FCC's ability to achieve the goals of the National Broadband plan."
• "The FCC must stand down from pursuing a course unauthorized and opposed by Congress."