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Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com)
Congressional Democrats seeking to reinstate net neutrality rules are still 46 votes short of getting the measure through the House of Representatives. Ars Technica reports: The U.S. Senate voted last month to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules, with all members of the Democratic caucus and three Republicans voting in favor of net neutrality. A discharge petition needs 218 signatures to force a House vote on the same net neutrality bill, and 218 votes would also be enough to pass the measure. So far, the petition has signatures from 172 representatives, all Democrats. That number hasn't changed in two weeks. The outlook looks grim as Republicans have a 235-193 majority in the House. If you're curious to see which representatives haven't signed the petition, you can view this page maintained by net neutrality group Fight for the Future.
If you count those as successes, you're profoundly retarded and there's nothing that can be done for you anymore. You're too detached from reality. Sorry!
You were saying?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Abuse of power is all fun & games when you're in power, the problem is when you're on the receiving end.
Your memory is incredibly short - remember it is the Democrats that abused power, not Republicans.
The ACA passage? Some political manoeuvring, but not abuse of power. In fact, if it weren't for the fairly extraordinary policy of "no GOP Senator is allowed to vote yes" it would have garnered quite a few GOP votes, it was afterall a GOP concept.
Why is it so darn hard for the FBI to describe when and why they started their Trump Investigation?
It's not hard, Carter Page blabbed his mouth to a diplomat about the leaked emails months before anyone knew of leaked emails. That's a good and very valid pretext.
Why did the FBI pay individuals to try and infiltrate/influence the Trump campaign?
When even a top GOP member disagrees with you it means your conspiracy theory
Why were there so many "unmasking" requests from the US Ambassador to the UN in the final year of the Obama administration? (Her defense is that it wasn't her, it was her "staff"!)
I can't recall this one off-hand but I'll look into it, I'm not hopeful that it has any more validity than your other points.
I stole this Sig
Just because you don't like - or maybe simply don't understand - the legal justification doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It was based on the Telecommunications Act of 1934, which gives the FCC the authority to regulate interstate and international communications, and the 1996 revision thereof.
For those who lack imagination:
Tennessee is one example.
Michigan Republicans are trying something similar.
It's part of a push by the Koch brothers.
And their effort has been quite successful.