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The endorsement from Rick Boucher, chairman of a key House committee, came on the eve of an FCC meeting on so-called net neutrality rules, which aim to keep the Web open and lessen the power of phone companies to decide the content that their customers can see. Commenting on a policy fight that analysts expect to end in court, Boucher said he would consider legislative action if the telecoms industry challenged the proposal. "The FCC is moving in exactly the right direction," said Boucher, a Virginia Democrat who is chairman of the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. Advocates of net neutrality such as Google, Amazon and public interest groups, say service providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast must be barred from blocking or slowing content based on how much revenue it could generate for them. But the service providers say the increasing volume of bandwidth-hogging services, such as video, requires very careful management of both landline and wireless networks. In a significant move late Wednesday, Verizon Wireless softened its opposition by issuing a joint policy blog statement with Google. They said they believe it is essential that the Internet remains an unrestricted and open platform. The FCC's existing broadband principles "make clear that users are in charge of all aspects of their Internet experience -- from access to apps and content," their joint statement said. "So we think it makes sense for the commission to establish that these existing principles are enforceable, and implement them on a case-by-case basis." The Supercomm telecom industry trade show in Chicago on Wednesday was abuzz with complaints about the proposal to forbid operators from discriminating against any legal content that third-parties want to deliver over their networks. Verizon Communications Inc Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said the debate around the proposal is extremely troubling" and could halt progress in U.S. broadband development. "If we can't earn a return on the investment we make in broadband, our progress will be delayed," Seidenberg said in his Supercomm keynote. At an FCC meeting on Thursday, a slate of three Democrats and two Republicans will decide whether to formally propose the net neutrality rules, which FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski first unveiled last month. But If the FCC's proposal is as tough as it appears to the carriers, also known as Bell operators, Stifel Nicolaus analyst Chris King said it will most likely end up in court. "Any ruling that moves the needle away from the Bells would fairly certainly wind up in the court fairly quickly," King said. 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