GOP launches last-minute push to stop Obama from transferring controlof Internet

Source: Washington Examiner | September 19, 2016 | Susan Ferrechio

Top House and Senate lawmakers are engaged in a last-minute push to block the United States government from handing control of the Internet to a private, global organization.

Facing a Sept. 30 deadline, lawmakers opposed to the transition are lobbying the Obama administration to halt the move.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is perhaps the staunchest congressional opponent to the handoff, said he is “cautiously optimistic” a rider prohibiting the transfer will be included in a must-pass government spending bill that is expected to become law by Sept. 30, the same date the transfer is supposed to take place.

Cruz this month delivered an impassioned speech denouncing the move, which would transfer control to a multi-stakeholder, nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.

“If the Obama administration hands control of the Internet over to this international organization, it’s not like the next president can magically snap his or her fingers and bring it back,” Cruz said. “Unscrambling those eggs may well not be possible.”

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