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posted by janrinok on Thursday June 28 2018, @10:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-close-yet-so-far dept.

Congressional Democrats seeking to reinstate net neutrality rules are still 46 votes short of getting the measure through the House of Representatives.

The US 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.

"We're 46 [signatures] away from being able to force a vote on the resolution to restore the Open Internet Order," Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tweeted yesterday.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/bill-to-save-net-neutrality-is-46-votes-short-in-us-house/


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @01:42PM (#699789)

    Unfortunately, my Republican congress critter is happy with "private industry development of the internet" and made a big deal about it during the last administration. Not much chance of changing his vote, but maybe some other Congressional Districts have a better shot?

    I know your district is probably gerrymandered to death, but there's a good chance less than half the people eligible to vote there actually vote. Maybe its time for some grass roots actions to register a few thousand new voters and change out your congress critter, since the corrupt fuck can't be bothered to change his vote on such an important issue (and who knows how many other critical issues he won't budge on as they sell out our nation for a 30 pieces of silver, wholesale). Gerrymandering can be beat, if people will just get off their butts.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:51PM (#699887)

    Some of us are beyond hope -- in this case it's chief Trump apologist Chris Collins. The district is all the suburbs and rural areas between Buffalo and Rochester NY. Doesn't look like some of the crazy gerrymandering (with "islands" connected by roads), but without either city it's highly Republican, map here:
        https://chriscollins.house.gov/about/our-district [house.gov]
    Now, if it was cut roughly in half (N to S) and each half contained one of the cities, we might have a shot at ousting him.