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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday that the net neutrality bill Democrats are pushing through the House will be “dead on arrival” in the Senate. The US House of Representatives is expected to vote later Tuesday on the Save the Internet Act, which is the Democrats’ proposal to restore Obama-era net neutrality …

President Donald Trump’s advisors say they’ll advise him to put the kibosh on a bill Democrats have crafted to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality protections, if the bill ever makes it to his desk. The Office of Management and Budget on Monday sent out a statement saying it would “strongly oppose” HR 1644, the “Save the Internet Act,” which codifies the …

The bill House Democrats are pushing to restore net neutrality protections made it out of committee and is headed for a full vote on the floor next week. On Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 30-22 along party-lines to approve the Save the Internet Act, which would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s Obama-era net neutrality regulations. The rules …

A bill backed by House Democrats to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality protections passed its first hurdle Tuesday. Democrats pushed the Save the Internet Act through the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee in an 18-11 vote that fell along party lines. The legislation codifies rules that were repealed in December 2017 by the Republican-led FCC. As part of this repeal, the …

Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says it’s time for Congress to put net neutrality protections into law. McMorris Rodgers, of Washington state, last month introduced legislation to restore net neutrality safeguards that the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission dismantled in late 2017. In an interview with CNET, she said politicians on both sides of the aisles need to come together to …

Rep. Mike Doyle, who’s shepherding the Democrats’ bill in the House of Representatives to restore the Obama-era net neutrality protections, says he’s not waiting for Republican support before bringing the proposed legislation to a vote. In an interview with CNET, the Democrat from Pennsylvania, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on communications and technology, criticized his colleagues …

Republicans and Democrats faced off Tuesday in a House hearing on the Democrats’ plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections. The hearing before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee House examined the Save the Internet Act, which Democrats introduced last week in the House and Senate. Out of the gate, Republicans on the subcommittee blasted Democrats, who …

Democrats in the US Congress will introduce a bill Wednesday to bring back net neutrality rules that were repealed in 2017, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said Monday. House Democrats will work with the Senate to pass the “Save the Internet Act,” Pelosi said in a letter to lawmakers, according to Reuters. The text of the reported bill hasn’t been …

US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle believe in a free and open internet, but it’s clear after today’s hearing in the House on net neutrality that they’re miles apart on how to get there. Democrats last year unsuccessfully fought to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules that were repealed by a Republican-led FCC in 2107. Meanwhile, Republicans have been pushing legislation …

Verizon thanked the first responder community in a new ad campaign that debuted during the Super Bowl Sunday night, months after the company was criticized for throttling California firefighters’ internet access as they battled one of the state’s largest wildfires, The ad includes interviews with first responders and NFL players who had experienced their own emergency situations in which first …