Subcommittee vote moves House bill along, but the partisan gulf over how to properly regulate broadband service remains as wide as ever.
Representative Mike Doyle, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, center, speaks while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, left, and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, listen during a news conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Democratic lawmakers are moving a bill to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules, amid Republican skepticism.
Doyle's bill would reinstate the net neutrality rules the Federal Communications Commission enacted in 2015, which prohibited ISPs from slowing or blocking traffic on their networks, and barred paid prioritization agreements where websites and applications could pay for speedy transmission of their content.
"It's a real missed opportunity," said Bob Latta , the ranking member on the subcommittee."The idea that only Title II can be real net neutrality is dangerous and wrong." Lawmakers in both chambers and parties -- as well as pretty much everyone else engaged with the issue -- recognize the importance of getting net neutrality rules enshrined in law. Earlier efforts by both a Republican- and Democratic-controlled FCC were overturned in federal court, and the 2015 order, deeply unpopular with the GOP, was essentially doomed once Trump-appointee Ajit Pai took control of the commission.
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