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Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer now says Democrats in the Senate are a single vote away from restoring net neutrality. According to the senator from New York, they now have a total of 50 votes for a Senate resolution of disapproval that would restore the Open Internet Order of 2015 and deliver a stiff rebuke to Ajit Pai and other Republican members of the FCC. It would also prevent the agency from passing a similar measure in the future, all but guaranteeing Net Neutrality is permanently preserved. Right now the resolution has the support of all 49 Democrats in the Senate and one Republican, Susan Collins of Maine. But Schumer and the rest of the caucus will have to win over one more Republican vote to prevent Vice President Mike Pence from breaking tie and allowing the repeal to stand. Under the Congressional Review Act, the Senate has 60 days to challenge a decision by an independent agency like the FCC. Democrats have less than 30 days to convince a "moderate" like John McCain or Lindsey Graham to buck their party. Further reading: The Washington Post (paywalled)
Slashdot summary is retarded. From the article:
"The measure must survive the Republican-majority House and be signed by President Trump to take effect."
If that was your intent, you sure did not express it very well.
Really, it's easier to understand if you quote the whole sentence:
Given the current state of the involved politics, what they need is a pissed off Republican who isn't interested in continuing in public service and who will vote to hurt Trump.
That's a statement of the politics, not an endorsement or suggestion, but a reflection on said conditions in politics.
Yes they are.
The Congressional Review Act of 1996 established expedited (or “fast track”) procedures by which Congress may disapprove a broad range of regulatory rules issued by federal agencies by enacting a joint resolution of disapproval. For initial floor consideration, the Act provides an expedited procedure only in the Senate. (The House would likely consider the measure pursuant to a special rule.) The Senate may use the procedure for 60 days of session after the agency transmits the rule to Congress. In both houses, however, to qualify for expedited consideration, a disapproval resolution must be submitted within 60 days after Congress receives the rule, exclusive of recess periods. Pending action on a disapproval resolution, the rule may go into effect, unless it is a “major rule” on which the President or issuing agency does not waive a delay period of 60 calendar days
Stop lying AC.
That's a lie comcast was blocking torrents before net neutrality. Look it up. Even now video gets throttled on various ISPs. We need net neutrality now!
Reagan raised taxes eleven times during his two terms. That alone would get him called a RINO by some members of the party.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
The trouble with the ACA repeal was that the electorate figured out it meant losing access to healthcare and billions of dollars in insurance subsidies. That's what shut it down.
Maybe you can tell that to the millions of americans who had their healthcare premiums go up by 400%(to 500-600/mo) with a $6000 deductible. To the point where the penalty for not having ACA insurance was cheaper then having insurance in the first place, or the millions who lost health insurance because of it. Because I'll tell ya something, there were a lot of seniors in FL(Zephyrhills) where I stay for part of the winter who couldn't afford insurance anymore.
Om, nomnomnom...
Parties have enormous power under the First Amendment (right to free assembly) to determine how their party works. The DNC and RNC have vastly different primary rules and are allowed to as current interpretations of the First Amendment do not allow the government to interfere much with them.
These rules are also not used that often so even ideas meant to improve things don't get much testing. Public selection of candidates for major parties has only been around since the early 1970s, first getting some use in the 1972 election, so they've only been used about a dozen times. That's including incumbent primaries, though, so it's even fewer for each party.
In the case of Democrats, Sanders had a huge hurdle to get past with the superdelegates backing Clinton from the start, putting him at a distinct disadvantage before the first vote was cast. The DNC assigns delegates based on election results, so a candidate getting 60% of the vote in a two-person race will get 60% of the delegates.
Republicans do things differently, leaving it up to states how to apportion delegates. Some go winner-takes-all, some do proportional, some do proportional with floors. On top of that, additional delegates are assigned to a state that voted for the last Republican presidential candidate or has elected positions held by Republicans or a majority of Republicans.
And those are heavily simplified versions, as there are a ton of other caveats. There are other important bits, but one factor that the parties seem to work together on is primary scheduling. This is why Iowa goes first and other states go in weird orders. A state that violates a party's earliest allowed date can be ignored by the party. It's perfectly legal to do so, as freedom of association means that the parties can exclude anyone they want.
It's an ugly mess, but fixing it might get uglier.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.