mr. walden: mr. chairman, i rise in support of h.r. 2666. this is the no rate regulation of broadband internet access act. from the first indication of the federal communications commission intended to reclassify broadband internet access service as a title 2 service, subject to utility, imagine that, utility regulation, the subcommittee on communications and technology has made it a priority to ensure that the f.c.c. bureaucracy never has the authority to actually get in and then micromanage and regulate rates. the internet is a model of innovation, flourishing under decades of light touch or no touch regulation. that's how it's flourished, mr. chairman. in recent years, as the f.c.c. has repeatedly attempted to regulate the management of internet traffic, the potential reach of those regulations has grown, prompting concerns that the f.c.c. would retreat to the world of rate regulation that typified the monopoly telephone era. . the f.c.c. announced in early 2015, mr. chairman, that it would reclas

mr. walden: mr. speaker, i ask 2666 now bring up h.r. and that i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on h.r. 2666. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. pursuant to house resolution 672 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 2666. the chair appoints the gentleman from tennessee, mr. duncan, to preside over the ommittee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 2666 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to prohibit the federal communications commission from regulating rates charged for broadband internet access service. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read the first time. the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. eshoo, each

mr. walden. mr. walden: thank you, mr. speaker. congressman hurd, i want to thank you for your leadership on this issue, and to the gentleman from new jersey as well, mr. payne, mr. thompson, we want to thank you as well for helping us out on that, mr. defazio too. and certainly to chairman michael mccaul. this answer by the t.s.a. makes no sense from a security standpoint and hurt ours smaller communities that may go from time to time without air service clamor for airer is vess. if you're a big airport and lose a carrier, you probably have several others serving the people of the area. if you're a small airport, like in oregon when skywest pulled out, they immediately began seeking new air service. they recruited a new partner, peninsula airways, in 2013, they had somebody in line, t.s.a. says, no, we're not coming back. their answer was to reverse screen. i said what's that? well that means you board the 28 or 30 passenger airplane with all your luggage and everything else then you fly in this case, 236 miles north to portland,