{"id":364691,"date":"2018-06-09T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T10:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-demand-paul-ryan-schedule-net-neutrality-vote-immediately\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T10:27:43","slug":"democrats-demand-paul-ryan-schedule-net-neutrality-vote-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-demand-paul-ryan-schedule-net-neutrality-vote-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Demand Paul Ryan Schedule Net Neutrality Vote Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n      <!-- begin featured-media-content --><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<p><span>Accusing Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan of thwarting the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2017\/09\/27\/consumer-survey-shows-two-thirds-oppose-fccs-plan-destroy-free-and-open-internet\">will of the public\u00a0<\/a><span>by attempting to block lawmakers\u2019 efforts to restore overwhelmingly popular net neutrality protections\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/06\/07\/deadline-fast-approaches-house-members-warned-defend-net-neutrality-or-face\">which will officially be repealed on June 11th<\/a><span>\u2014the entire Senate Democratic caucus\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/with-only-four-days-until-the-fcc-officially-repeals-net-neutrality-entire-senate-democratic-caucus-urges-speaker-ryan-to-immediately-schedule-vote-on-bipartisan-senate-passed-legislation-to-overturn-trump-administrations-disastrous-decision_dems-launch-new-website-tracking-how-long-speaker-ryan-has-waited-to-savetheinternet\">sent a letter<\/a><span>\u00a0to Ryan on Thursday demanding that he end his \u201cobstruction\u201d and immediately schedule a vote to preserve the open internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is incumbent on the House of Representatives to listen to the voices of consumers, including the millions of Americans who supported the FCC\u2019s 2015 net neutrality order, and keep the internet free and open for all,\u201d the Senate Democrats write, urging Ryan to take up a Congressional Review Act (CRA)<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/05\/16\/defenders-open-internet-deliver-historic-win-senate-votes-restore-net-neutrality\">measure they passed<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>last month with the help of three Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules that this resolution would restore were enacted by the FCC in 2015 to prevent broadband providers from blocking, slowing down, prioritizing, or otherwise unfairly discriminating against internet traffic that flows across their networks,\u201d the Democrats note. \u201cIt is essential that you take this step to protect middle-class families, consumers, farmers, communities of color, entrepreneur, and all who rely on the free and open internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">21 days ago, we proved <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjitPaiFCC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AjitPaiFCC<\/a> and the special interests wrong and passed the resolution to save <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetNeutrality?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NetNeutrality<\/a> in the Senate. We can do it again in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the entire Senate Democratic Caucus and I are demanding that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerRyan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerRyan<\/a> immediately hold a vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vHaWE0McMk\">pic.twitter.com\/vHaWE0McMk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMarkey\/status\/1004768854038499329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The senators\u2019 letter comes as House Democrats are gathering signatures for a discharge petition that would force a vote on the CRA, whether Ryan wants one or not. Given that the vast majority of GOP lawmakers have opposed net neutrality despite its popularity among their constituents, Ryan likely doesn\u2019t want his colleagues to go on the record against the open internet ahead of&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/to-keep-internet-free-and-open-for-all-democrats-demand-paul-ryan-schedule-net-neutrality-vote-immediately\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accusing Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan of thwarting the\u00a0will of the public\u00a0by attempting to block lawmakers\u2019 efforts to restore overwhelmingly popular net neutrality protections\u2014which will officially be repealed on June 11th\u2014the entire Senate Democratic caucus\u00a0sent a letter\u00a0to Ryan on Thursday demanding that he end his \u201cobstruction\u201d and immediately schedule a vote to preserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}