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I don't think Title II classification requires a vote from congress, just an action by the FCC.
by adrianparsons 12y ago
I don't think Title II classification requires a vote from congress, just an action by the FCC.
- dabockster 12y agoThis. Even if these are just words, they are the words of the President of the United States. To most people, words from the Oval Office carry some weight.
- Zigurd 12y agoYou have put your finger on it. Obama is looking for things he can get done without Congress. If he can devalue campaign contributions SPs made to Republicans, that's an even more attractive move.
- mark-r 12y agoBut if the FCC refuses to act on its own, even with encouragement from the President, a new law is the only way to force the issue. Hopefully it won't come to that, because I predict the odds of success being very low. Even if a law passes, it won't be before the lobbyists get their fingers all over it.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> But if the FCC refuses to act on its own, even with encouragement from the President, a new law is the only way to force the issue The FCC has been acting in the direction of neutrality for some time, and the House majority has been talking more about preventing them from doing so than encouraging them (much less legislating to mandate something more than the FCC wants.) With a bigger Republican majority in the House and Republican control of the Senate, there's almost exactly zero chance of pro-neutrality legislation from the Congress. Its more likely that pro-neutrality FCC will be met with anti-neutrality Congressional action (the only upside of which, from the pro-neutrality POV, is that it might raise the profile of the issue for the 2016 election.)