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Thursday, December 14, 2017
CRA resolution would reinstate robust net neutrality protections and the Open Internet Order
Washington (December 14, 2017) Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and 15 other Senators today announced their plan to introduce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would undo todays action by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and restore the 2015 net neutrality rules. Today, the FCC approved an item that guts the 2015 Open Internet Order, which the D.C. Circuit Court upheld in 2016. The Open Internet Order prohibited internet service providers from setting up internet fast and slow lanes and ensured they could not block or slow down internet traffic.
Donald Trumps FCC made an historic mistake today by overturning its net neutrality rules, and we cannot let it stand, said Senator Markey. Without strong net neutrality rules, entrepreneurs, inventors, small businesses, activists and all those who rely on a free and open internet will be at the mercy of big broadband companies that can block websites, slow down traffic and charge websites fees in order to increase their profits.
We will fight the FCCs decisions in the courts, and we will fight it in the halls of Congress, continued Senator Markey. With this CRA, Congress can correct the Commissions misguided and partisan decision and keep the internet in the hands of the people, not big corporations. Our Republicans colleagues have a choice - be on the right side of history and stand with the American people who support net neutrality, or hold hands with the big cable and broadband companies who only want to supercharge their profits at the expense of consumers and our economy.
Senator Markeys resolution of disapproval would rescind FCC Chairman Ajit Pais item and fully restore the Open Internet Order. CRA resolutions allow Congress to overturn regulatory actions at federal agencies with a simple majority vote in both chambers. In accordance with the Congressional Review Act, the Senators will formally introduce the resolution once the rule is submitted to both houses of Congress and published in the federal register. Congressman Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) plans to introduce a CRA resolution in the House of Representatives.
Other Senators co-sponsoring the CRA resolution include Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii.), Richard Blumenthal (DConn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
Add: Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to co-sponsor list
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-leads-resolution-to-restore-fccs-net-neutrality-rules
steve2470
(37,457 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)I wonder what the Founding Fathers would think of this anti-American organized crime party? Selling out our country, every single day.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)That might take awhile.....
UrbScotty
(23,980 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)It's not about the U.S., it's about making the rich richereven if they aren't the American rich.
that, and nothing else but that! Pure, unadulterated greed.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Impossible to stream any content without halts and disconnections. A definite pattern I have been tracking for the past couple years.
They state they will not limit amount of usage, but since they make serious downloading all but impossible out here in the boonies by horrible buffering problems, it is the same thing.
and right in the middle of a molasses slow incident. I can pull Amazon up in a millisecond.
Have no doubt they will raise the the cost quick as they can.
erronis
(15,303 posts)What happened to the internet that was funded by the taxpayers (ARPA) and is now pwned by corporations and possibly the USSR?
How can the repuglicans get away with little flags in their lapels and undercutting all the freedoms that generations have fought for? Filthy lucre!!!!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)how the internet is now so vital to connecting with other people all over the globe.
All fascist and related governments try to bottleneck citizen communication.
As long as the Repubs remain in power at state and national level, they will continue to dismantle our gov.
erronis
(15,303 posts)Rhetorical question, natch.
It is so easy now for home-grown kleptocrats or an other-state dictator to manipulate markets that it goes without saying that they will.
It's hard to say with multi-national billionaires that are beholden to no nationality (and pay no taxes) that they would give a shit about influencing elections or even offing impediments to their greed.
This is going to be a fun ride. Dystopian SciFi from the past probably can't anticipate what will happen when the shit explodes. I just hope I live a few seconds long enough to watch some high-and-mighty fall hard.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)totally get what you mean.
I have an expanding bucket list of things I want to see happen before I shuffle off.
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)Guess I have to call again and tell him to get off his keister and start to do something to help. Here of late, he's been a disappointment.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)catbyte
(34,403 posts)Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)While the main Right Wing blowhards are on Terrestrial Radio.
Blecht
(3,803 posts)But I live in Oregon, and Merkley and Wyden have always been on the right side of this.
I sure do like my Senators.
mobeau69
(11,145 posts)FDT
diva77
(7,643 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)Increased by FCC gutting?
Inquiring minds and all that
Donkees
(31,418 posts)https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-leads-resolution-to-restore-fccs-net-neutrality-rules
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thank You Ed Markey and all the other Democratic co-sponsors of this resolution.