Sen. Al Franken Alan (Al) Stuart FrankenGOP Senate candidate says Trump, Republicans will surprise in Minnesota Peterson faces fight of his career in deep-red Minnesota district Getting tight — the psychology of cancel culture MORE (D-Minn.) blasted Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzMurkowski: Supreme Court nominee should not be taken up before election Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight Sunday shows - Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death dominates MORE's description of net neutrality as "ObamaCare for Internet."

"He has it completely wrong and just doesn't understand what this issue is," the Minnesota lawmaker told CNN's Candy Crowley in an excerpt of an interview to air on "State of the Union" Sunday.

"We've had net neutrality the entire history of the Internet … ObamaCare was a government program that fixed something that changed things. This [net neutrality] is about reclassifying something so it stays the same."

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Earlier this week President Obama called for the “strongest possible rules on net neutrality" and pledged to reclassify the Internet as a public utility, a move that enraged Republicans.

Cruz took to Twitter shortly after the announcement, comparing net neutrality to Obama's signature healthcare law, which opened for general enrollment Saturday. "The Internet should not operate at the speed of the government," he tweeted.