Democrats Score A Victory For Net Neutrality As Senate Votes To Reverse Trump FCC Repeaal
Posted on Wed, May 16th, 2018 by Jason Easley
Senate Democrats used a procedural maneuver and managed to get just enough support from a few Republican colleagues to overturn the repeal of net neutrality that was put into place by Trump’s FCC chairman.
All the Democrats voted for the resolution, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) Sen., Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Susan Collins (R-ME) joined the Democrats in passing the legislation that will now go to the House. Before the vote Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said:
As Schumer predicted, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) complained that he wanted a legislative solution and that the open and free internet under net neutrality is actually government regulation.
Republicans really didn’t want to discuss net neutrality, because their arguments stink. They don’t want the American people to know that their open and free internet is being turned over to the big Internet Service Providers. The House is also close to forcing a vote on net neutrality.
America has taken a big step closer to protecting the open and free internet.
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