Markey Predicts Senate Vote 'Within a Month' on Net Neutrality CRA Resolution
The Senate will hold a floor vote “within a month” on the Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval aimed at reversing FCC rescission of its 2015 net neutrality rules (see 1802270040), said Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., during a Thursday evening…
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event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Markey is sponsoring a resolution (Senate Joint Resolution-52), as is House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Mike Doyle, D-Pa. (House Joint Resolution-129). Markey urged supporters to “bombard Congress” in coming weeks to get at least one more Republican senator to support the measure, which would bring it to majority support in the chamber. Fifty senators -- all 49 members of the Democratic Caucus and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine -- have publicly backed it. More than 160 House Democrats currently support the measure. Democrats have continued pushing the CRA resolution and legal challenges in the face of Republicans’ emphasis on reaching a compromise, including in a recent House Communications hearing on paid prioritization (see 1804170037). President Donald Trump’s administration “is saying that we can trust companies to make those rules, but we can’t,” said former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Obama administration tech adviser Susan Crawford said the net neutrality debate won’t be settled with the CRA vote, predicting it will remain “a crucial issue for the 2020 election.”