As expected, the Net Neutrality bill (H.R. 1644, “Save the Internet Act of 2019”) passed the House last month by a vote of 232 – 190. Now what?
Well, from a purely logistical standpoint, the next step is to send the bill to the Senate. Done. The bill was received by the Senate on April 11. It was read the second time on April 29 and placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders.
What does all that mean? Not much, if you believe Mitch McConnell’s pronouncement that the bill is “dead on arrival,” despite the fact that every Democratic senator (except Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – Ariz.) and the independent senators who caucus with them immediately co-sponsored the bill when it was introduced. And even Sinema, after facing pressure from pro-net neutrality advocacy groups, has announced that she will form a working group with Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) to find a “bipartisan solution.”
The “Save the Internet” bill is designed to reinstate Obama-era regulations that required Internet service providers to treat all customers and websites equally. The premise behind the regulations was that Internet access is a right, not a privilege, a public service to which everyone is equally entitled.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow the Senate to vote on the Net Neutrality bill. But even on the outside chance that the Senate should vote on and approve the bill, Trump has said he will veto it.
But hey, it’s not over yet. There is a chance that Republicans and Democrats might agree on the need for a free Internet. The Republican-controlled Senate narrowly passed a bill last year to restore Net Neutrality rules after Trump’s FCC scrapped them. And it’s just possible that Trump will decide that Net Neutrality makes his base happy.
Stay tuned.