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Tech at Night: A victory lap on Net Neutrality, plus more on Roaming, FCC

Tech at Night

Today, the House of Representatives voted to repeal Net Neutrality. H.J. Res 37, a resolution invoking the Congressional Review Act to reverse the FCC’s Net Neutrality order, passed the House under H.Res 200 by a 241-178 vote. Republicans voted 236-0 for repeal, while Democrats voted 178-5 against repeal. The five Democrats? Boren of OK, Conyers of MI, Costa of CA, Peterson of MN, and Shuler of NC. So of the Democrats you called, two went our way. We’ll have to remember the ones who chose to side with the San Francisco Democrat agenda instead of the (slightly) bipartisan position.

I feel good about this big win in the House today. I’ll let Fred Upton tell you why this vote was important:


Though as good as we feel about this, our work is not done. Not only do we need to fight for this resolution in the Senate, but I think we’re going to have to start the process all over again with a new FCC overreach. They’ve now passed the Sprint Regulatory Bailout, or what is better known as Data Roaming price controls. This is yet another gross violation of the strict limits placed on the FCC by the Telecommunications Act.

Seton Motley suggests we may want to shut down the FCC. I’m hesitant to go that far, but it’s hard to argue against him when the FCC shows so little respect for the Congress, the Courts, and the fundamental Rule of Law. We need to invoke the Congressional Review Act against them as many times as it takes to whip them into line.

COMMENTS

  • lineholder

    I actually saw some of this on C-Span today.

    Dems were saying “why are we even talking about this? We should be talking about the shutdown!”

    They were whining, plain and simple. It was worse than the fingernails on a chalkboard listening to them. I’m going to have learn how to lip read.

  • fpete13527

    I agree with moving on to shut down the FCC.

    This administration truly has zero integrity and will continuously exploit the FCC for their Marxism intent until we stop it completely.

  • plimmin

    I’m a little confused about net neutrality. My understanding (and i have a background in tech) is that Net Neutrality is supposed to ensure a free market for ideas and companies alike. I’m not sure how it became a political issue at all, but I would think the Republican position ought to be in favor of keeping a free market open for small businesses and sites like Redstate to be able to thrive without worrying that Comcast could shut them down.

    Am I wrong here?

  • http://www.spartanburgteaparty.org karenmartin
  • fpete13527

    If your sincere about your quandary , read the archives then come back and comment.