House Democrats advanced their flagship net neutrality bill on Wednesday, clearing the final hurdle before a floor vote next week.<\/p>\n
The House Energy and Commerce Committee in a 30-22 party-line vote approved the Save the Internet Act, which would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s Obama-era regulations requiring internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally.<\/p>\n
A marathon markup:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The Democrats beat back more than a dozen attempts from Republicans to gut the bill with amendments throughout the markup that lasted nine and a half hours.<\/p>\n GOP pushback:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Republican members pushed bills that would undercut the FCC’s authority to enforce the rules and called for Democrats to come up with a compromise bill that would establish less oversight of the broadband industry.<\/p>\n “This, my friends, is not the net neutrality that people want,” said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.). “It’s actually more government socialism and frankly it’s worse.”<\/p>\n Why it’s a big deal for Dems:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The party has rallied around the bill as an answer to the Trump FCC’s repeal of the rules in 2017. Democratic leaders have scheduled a floor vote on the bill next week, and it is widely expected to pass.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The bill, though, faces long odds in the Republican-controlled Senate. The GOP has argued that the 2015 rules were too burdensome and largely resisted efforts to overturn the repeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" House Democrats advanced their flagship net...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15960,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions\/15960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}