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The Net Neutrality repeal vote is coming. Tell these Dems to vote Yes.

The House of Representatives is likely to vote tomorrow, Thursday, on the repeal of the FCC’s Net Neutrality power grab. Using the Congressional Review Act, the repeal of the Net Neutrality order can be accomplished in an expedited way. In particular this means the bill cannot be filibustered in the Senate, so passing it means something.

As Seton Motley said:

This is our first opportunity to rein in the Barack Obama Administration’s ongoing, all-encompassing effort to bypass Congress and enact their Leftist policies via executive branch regulatory fiat.

There are thirteen swing-district Democrats on whom pressure has been put by their leadership to stand for the ridiculous and oppressive notion that is Net Neutrality – by voting Nay on the CRA Resolution.

Let’s persuade them otherwise, shall we?

Democrats in Question Phone Email Fax
Jason Altmire (PA-4) (202) 225-2565 Jason.Altmire@mail.house.gov (202) 226-2274
Sanford Bishop (GA-2) (202) 225-3631 Sanford.Bishop@mail.house.gov (202) 225-2203
Leonard Boswell (IA-3) (202) 225-3806 lbos.ia3@mail.house.gov (202) 225-5608
Jim Costa (CA-20) (202) 225-3341 jimcostamc@mail.house.gov (202) 225-9308
Henry Cuellar (TX-28) (202) 225-1640 from website (202) 225-1641
Reuben Hinojosa (TX-15) (202) 225-2531 Rep.Hinojosa@mail.house.gov (202) 225-5688
Tim Holden (PA-17) (202) 225-5546 from website (202) 226-0996
Rick Larsen (WA-2) (202) 225-2605 Rick.Larsen@mail.house.gov (202) 225-4420
Mike McIntyre (NC-7) (202) 225-2731 from website (202) 225-5773
Jerry McNerney (CA-11) (202) 225-1947 from website (202) 225-4060
Gregory Meeks (NY-6) (202) 225-3461 from website (202) 226-4169
David Scott (GA-13) (202) 225-2939 from website (202) 225-4628
Heath Shuler (NC-11) (202) 225-6401 Heath.Shuler@mail.house.gov (202) 226-6422

COMMENTS

  • http://www.takebackthegop.net takebackthegop

    I wrote a blanket letter to all the above and then called each office in DC. I also recruited a few people to do the same.

    Now I’m waiting to see if pigs do fly.

  • MF

    I’m at work and can’t dig into the needed research, but do we have the record of how these representatives voted when the bill was originally passed? (Of course I’m talking about those who were part of that Congress.)

  • fpete13527

    Thanks for heads up. This is important.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    It was ordered by the FCC. So there was no original passage.

  • sccrenny

    point out that the courts have already slammed the FCC trying to extend their authority to the Net as unconstitutional. Offer to send them a copy of the Constitution if they haven’t read it…

  • Red_in_SC

    It’s bad enough that we have an activist element in the unelected judiciary that have been making public policy since the early 1900s, but now we have unelected bureaucrats making public policy, and significant policy.

    If we, the American people don’t hold our elected representatives responsible, and insist on a return to elected officials making policy, we could face a day when elections don’t matter.

  • methodius

    I am fairly well versed in Robert’s Rules of Order beacuse of my position, but I admit I am not up on the House and Senate’s individual parlimentary rules and procedures. Can this same principle/procedure be used with the EPA’s power grab? What other regulatory schemes can it be applied to?

    I ask since the Senate is/has/will strike down four different attempts before them on the EPA issue. If this can be fast tracked the same way and bypass the filibuster why not use it too? Is the difference that the EPA regs on greenhouse gases/back door cap and trade are only proposed at this point and the Net Nutrality is already policy?

  • hendrig

    I hope I’m wrong but I think that day is almost upon us. Why do you think the President, Reid, Polisi and many of their followers are so arrogant? It’s the voter turnout. I don’t blame the ones that voted these clowns into office. At least they voted. It’s the 50% plus of those eligible who don’t vote that I have a problem with. They deserve the government they get. Some say voting is a big waste of time because the elections are rigged so their vote will make no difference. Others say that they didn’t like any of the candidates so they didn’t vote. My favorite, “I don’t vote so you can’t blame me for the shape the country is in.” WRONG! They have no room to complain because they deserve the government they got. People who don’t like their person in office will still vote for them because they refuse to vote for someone in the other party. If you don’t like the incumbent, who says you have to vote for someone in another party? Encourage someone to challenge them in the primaries and you can vote against the incumbent there. That way you don’t have to sacrifice your party loyalty. That idea can work with every office from the President down to the local level. It worked in Pennsylvania in the last election. A politicians’ worse nightmare is for everyone, who is eligible, to get out and vote. Then they would have to work for their constituents and there is no money in that. The big money comes from the contributions of the Special Interest Lobbies. All the big lobbies have, at least, one politician in their hip pockets. To those who don’t vote, I have one thing to say. If the day ever comes when that minority of voters have voted all our rights away, don’t complain to me about it. I will have one question for you. Where were you when there was still time to do something about it? Wake up and smell the coffee America and get off dead center and vote. “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Edward R. Murrow said it many years ago and it still holds true today.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    If the EPA on its own issues bad regulations, CRA applies as long as it’s done within a certain amount of time. Which appears to be 60 days that Congress is in session.

  • MF

    Right – I should have remembered that. Sorry, too frazzled at work here for my brain to function very clearly. :-( I come here (to RS) to regain a few moments of sanity. Thanks!