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Senate Will Force Vote On Overturning Net Neutrality Repeal (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the long-road-ahead dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) has mustered the 30 votes necessary to force a vote on the FCC's decision to repeal net neutrality. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) announced that she's signed onto Markey's request to overturn the new rules, under the Congressional Review Act -- which lets Congress nullify recently passed regulations with a simple majority. Markey announced his intention to file a resolution of disapproval in December, just after the FCC voted on new rules that killed net neutrality protections from 2015. These new rules were officially published last week, and with 30 sponsors, Markey can make the Senate vote on whether to consider overturning them. If this happens, it would lead to a debate and final vote. That's not remotely the end of the process: if it's approved, the resolution will go to the House, and if it passes there, the desk of Donald Trump, who seems unlikely to approve it.

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  1. Re:The point is to make the Republican party by Tulsa_Time · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Agreed.

    I am for rational NN. And i am 100% Republican.

    If Congress makes the law... all the better. The FCC does NOT have this power at this time.

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  2. Re: The point is to make the Republican party by youngone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    what makes you think they would pass a net neutrality law that would benifit you?

    And why should they? The whole US political system is set up to turn money into influence.

    When the oil industry wrote George Bush the second's energy policy, those of us who live in a democracy were shocked, but as far as I can understand it was pretty uncontroversial in the US.