IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 175 
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’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 16, 2011 
Mr. LATTA submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
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 gov-
ernment regulations; 
Whereas the United States has over 79,000,000 wireline 
broadband connections; 
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Whereas wireless auctions are the reason the United States 
has over 54,000,000 wireless broadband connections; 
Whereas the Universal Service Fund has, in recent years, 
been plagued with mismanagement, a bloated budget, and 
out-of-date initiatives; 
Whereas public-private partnerships, like those piloted by or-
ganizations 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 the United States Patent and Trademark Office 
issued an average of 185,177 patents per year from 1999 
to 2010, and in 2010 issued a total of 233,127 patents 
which represents an increase of 22.6 percent from the 
previous year; 
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 en-
hanced capacity for the United States to be competitive 
in the global marketplace; 
Whereas the digital age not only expands an individual’s 
reach and ability to connect with family and friends, pro-
vides new and exciting educational opportunities, and 
opens up the global economy to entrepreneurial initia-
tives, but it also exposes an individual to a myriad of new 
threats such as identity theft, scams, and other methods 
of online victimization; and 
Whereas we should continually strive to advance this rapidly 
growing source of social and economic benefit to the Na-
tion: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that in order to continue aggressive growth 
in the Nation’s telecommunications and technology indus-
tries, 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) reforming the Universal Service Fund, and 
encouraging broadband deployment in both rural 
unserved and underserved areas through the use of 
public-private partnerships; 
(3) making additional spectrum available for 
commercial usage through unencumbered auctions; 
(4) 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; 
(5) reforming the national patent and trade-
mark system to protect the intellectual property of 
those on the leading edge of innovation; and 
(6) ensuring individual privacy protections with-
out compromising marketplace efficiencies. 
Æ 
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