Senate Rejects Bid to Repeal FCC’s ‘Net-Neutrality’ Rules
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The Senate rejected a bid to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial net neutrality rules on Thursday in a party-line vote. The measure passed the House in April, but failed in the Senate on a vote of 52 to 46. It needed 51 votes to pass and was not subject to a filibuster. The White House threatened earlier this week to veto the measure if it cleared the Senate, which came as no surprise since President Obama made net neutrality part of his campaign platform.
Without net neutrality, Americans access to the Internet would hinge not on our right to free speech but on the whims of the corporations that would control it,” said ACLU legislative counsel Christopher Calabrese.
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