[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 78 (Thursday, May 22, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H4815-H4816]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               DOTCOM ACT

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to thank Chairman McKeon for 
supporting Congressmen Shimkus, Rokita, and me, in support of adding 
the DOTCOM Act as an amendment to our National Defense Authorization 
Act.
  I support a free market multistakeholder model of Internet 
governance. In a perfect world, ICANN AND IANA would be free of 
government control and fully privatized. However, we don't live in a 
perfect world, and we know full well that China and Russia have a 
different view of perfection and are willing to aggressively pursue it. 
Their end goal is to have ICANN and IANA functions migrate to the 
U.N.'s ITU.
  Passage of today's NDAA and inclusion of DOTCOM gives the 
multistakeholder model a chance to succeed, but it does so with 
congressional oversight. However, if we begin to sense--even for a 
minute--that that model isn't working, I will be the first Member to 
call on this body to taken stronger actions.
  Again, I thank the chairman and my colleagues for bringing this about 
today.

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