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House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill (theguardian.com)
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the House will hold a vote next month on the Democrats' bill to reinstate the Obama-era net neutrality rules. "Hoyer said in a letter to colleagues that the House will consider the Save the Internet Act during the week of April 8," reports The Hill. From the report: The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines in 2017 to repeal the popular regulations prohibiting internet service providers from blocking or throttling websites, or from creating internet fast lanes. Democrats and consumer groups are fighting the repeal with a legal challenge in federal court and have pushed net neutrality regulations at the state level.
While Republicans have floated their own bills to replace the rules, many oppose the Save the Internet Act because it reinstates the provision in the 2015 order that designates broadband providers as common carriers, opening them up to tougher regulation and oversight from the FCC. Though it enjoys widespread support among Democrats, the legislation may have a hard time getting through the GOP-held Senate. The "Save the Internet Act" was introduced earlier this month by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House and Senate Democrats.
While Republicans have floated their own bills to replace the rules, many oppose the Save the Internet Act because it reinstates the provision in the 2015 order that designates broadband providers as common carriers, opening them up to tougher regulation and oversight from the FCC. Though it enjoys widespread support among Democrats, the legislation may have a hard time getting through the GOP-held Senate. The "Save the Internet Act" was introduced earlier this month by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House and Senate Democrats.
Nothing worse than an endless parade of bills that are voted on just to virtue signal, with no chance of accomplishing anything.
Would be nice if everyone would try to work together to solve real problems.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
the Democrats are being really stupid about this. Why on earth would they bring this to bear when they already know the president will veto it? It's just going to make it less likely that the next congress will bring up such a bill.
You have inadvertently revealed the game. Make sure to vote for things that are popular when they can have no effect, so that you'll not be voting on things later that might make the giant corporations that support you mad.
It's the same reason why neither the Democrats nor Republicans ever seem to get much passed when they control both house and senate.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
it's to get the GOP on record as opposing net neutrality. Right now a lot of the ones that run in unsafe districts will tell you with straight face that they love Net Neutrality... much like Senator Palpatine Loved Democracy, but they can't stand those icky bureaucrats misusing the Telecom Act to force it and oh, if only there were a law.
This is put up or shut up time for those schmucks, and with how much cable money and AT&T cash they're sitting on it'll be shutup. In turn that'll be an issue in 2020 that might cost them their seat and give it to a Democrat. If that happens enough times then the Dems will pass the bill.
This is how the sausage is made. Don't like it? Go vote for a Democrat in 2020. And if you don't like the candidates vote in your primary dammit.
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Sorry, you're taking the theatrics too seriously. This is a very obvious PR sham. It's been done many times before. "Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't"
People vote on promises and bullshit. If they judged politicians on their actual voting record, reelection rates would be closer to 20% instead of 95%.
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