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Amendment 7 fails adding specific net neutrality language

Amendment 7, which would have added specific net neutrality language to Bill HR5252, failed by a vote of 269 to 152.
7. Markey (MA)/Eshoo (CA)/Boucher (VA)/Inslee (WA): Seeks to restore important non-discrimination requirements enforced by the Federal Communications Commission that from the inception of the Internet until August of 2005 were binding on telecommunications carriers. This amendment essentially has 3 parts: provides a policy statement in addition to the general duties of broadband network providers; provides for preserved rights and exceptions to the general statutory duties in the first part; and provides an expedited complaint process and an antitrust savings clause.
Basically this defeat means that net neutrality advocates failed to get specific legal language in the bill guaranteeing net neutrality.

Since this amendment failed, net neutrality will be determined by the FCC on a case by case basis if this Bill ever makes it into law.

The next vote will be on the bill itself. An up or down on HR 5252 with the amendments added today.
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