[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 58 (Friday, April 15, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

                                 ______
                                 

                        HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 15, 2016

  Mr. CONNOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I am unavoidably absent for today's 
consideration of the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access 
Act (H.R. 2666) as I am speaking at the funeral for Ms. Fannie 
Fitzgerald, a Civil Rights pioneer who helped integrate the Prince 
William County Public Schools in my district in the early 1960s. She 
was a courageous and inspiring woman, and I was proud to feature her 
first-hand recounting of that experience the Northern Virginia Civil 
Rights Archive project, which my office produced to commemorate the 
50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
   On the Yarmuth/Lujan/Pallone/Clarke Amendment, I would have voted 
``yes,'' in support of preserving the FCC's authority to require 
broadcasters provide their public inspection files in an online, 
searchable format for public review. I also would have voted ``yes'' on 
the McNerney Amendment to preserve the Commission's authority to act in 
the public interest, convenience, and necessity. Finally, I would have 
voted ``no'' on final passage as the scope of this bill extends far 
beyond its simple-sounding title.

                          ____________________