[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 53 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 53

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to 
   continue aggressive growth in the Nation's telecommunications and 
technology industries, the United States Government should ``Get Out of 
                   the Way and Stay Out of the Way''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2017

Mr. Latta submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to 
   continue aggressive growth in the Nation's telecommunications and 
technology industries, the United States Government should ``Get Out of 
                   the Way and Stay Out of the Way''.

Whereas the technology and communications industries in the United States have 
        historically been some of the most competitive in the world and devoid 
        of burdensome Government regulations;
Whereas the United States has over 102,000,000 fixed broadband connections;
Whereas wireless auctions are the reason the United States has over 253,000,000 
        wireless broadband connections;
Whereas public-private partnerships, like those piloted by organizations such as 
        Connected Nation, have raised broadband subscription rates, especially 
        in rural areas, by increasing both broadband supply and demand without 
        having to rely on regulation;
Whereas deregulatory policies and free-market competition consistently yield a 
        higher rate of economic growth, a greater standard of living for all 
        Americans, and an enhanced capacity for the United States to be 
        competitive in the global marketplace;
Whereas the digital age expands an individual's reach and ability to connect 
        with family and friends, provides new and exciting educational 
        opportunities, and expands a growing global economy, while 
        simultaneously exposing an individual to a myriad of new threats such as 
        identity theft and other methods of online victimization, and resulting 
        in the increase of attempted criminal cyber attacks on businesses and 
        communications networks; and
Whereas we should continually strive to advance this rapidly growing source of 
        social and economic benefit to the Nation: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
in order to continue aggressive growth in the Nation's 
telecommunications and technology industries, the United States 
Government should ``Get Out of the Way and Stay Out of the Way'' by--
            (1) promoting investment through deregulation and free-
        market competition;
            (2) making additional spectrum available for commercial 
        usage through unencumbered auctions, reallocation of Federal 
        spectrum, and efficient spectrum sharing;
            (3) establishing a national goal of transmitting high-
        quality, real-time voice, data, graphics, and video at 
        increasingly higher speeds to all people in the United States, 
        especially in rural and underserved areas;
            (4) ensuring individual privacy protections without 
        compromising marketplace efficiencies; and
            (5) promoting cyber threat sharing for allowing the private 
        sector to actively defend their communications networks.
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