Net Neutrality Effort Draws Mixed Reactions From FCC Members

A bipartisan Senate effort to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s December rollback of net neutrality rules drew mixed reactions from FCC commissioners at a Las Vegas trade show Jan. 9.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) Jan. 9 became perhaps the first Republican lawmaker to voice support for a plan backed by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to invoke the Congressional Review Act to void the FCC’s action. The agency voted along party lines in December to scrap its net neutrality rules for internet service providers’ network management. It also undid its underlying regulatory classification of broadband as a common ...