Below is a transcript of the speech Sen. John Kerry delivered today on the Senate floor in opposition to the "resolution of disapproval," a measure that would strip the FCC of its authority to protect consumers and the open Internet.

This is one of those times when on the floor of the United States Senate we hear a proposal that people characterize as one thing but it is, in fact, anything but what they're characterizing it as. What Senator — I just heard the good senator from Mississippi talking about this, “We don't want to slam the brakes on development,” he said. “We don't want to have the F.C.C. intrusion.”