BREAKING: With bipartisan support, the U.S. Senate just voted to save Net Neutrality!

[kpete]

THE AYES HAVE IT!

The Senate just voted 52-47 to protect #NetNeutrality from Trump's FCC.

The fight moves to the House now - it's an uphill battle, but the three Republican Senators who voted YES today (Collins, Murkowski, and Kennedy) should make it a little easier.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. NICE

But the veto...

[dalton99a]

3. Completely negotiable - with a $500 million donation to the Trump Organization

[Alethia Merritt]

46. Seems like some Senators want those young votes.

[Nictuku]

2. Wow!

Will the House follow suit? Will the President sign it? (replaced Senate with House - oops)

[onenote]

6. No. No.

House won't even vote on it. And if they did, it would lose and if by some miracle it won, it would be vetoed.

But it was a worthwhile exercise in any event.

[a kennedy]

38. So what will possibly happen when the Dems take back the House in 2018?? *keeping fingers crossed*

[onenote]

40. At that point, the Congressional Review Act window will have closed

Congress can pass legislation imposing net neutrality rules but it would have to pass both the House and Senate and survive a veto. While members on both sides of the aisle continually express interest in dealing with the issue legislatively, getting something that can command a veto proof majority in both houses (or would be acceptable to Trump even if passed by a small majority) will be challenging.

[Stuart G]

4. k and r no text..

[MoonRiver]

5. Awesome!

[rurallib]

7. woo-hoo

now to find how my bought and paid for senators voted-
Ernst and Grassley

Yep - just as I thought

[calimary]

23. Give their local offices a call and give 'em a piece of your mind!

It’s easier to get through to your reps when you call locally and/or regionally. Calling their DC offices can sometimes be an exercise in futility.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Great News, even if it's only symbolic.

I really doubt the House will follow suit, and of course, there's always the chance of a veto.

[Dave Starsky]

24. It's not just symbolic.

Every one of the Congress critters who vote against this bill will go on record as not supporting it, and they will have to defend that stance. Every one who votes for it will also be on record.

The Republicans in the house will have enough to deal with this November without having Internet freedom wrapped around their necks. They really have no reason not to vote for it, since Shitgibbon will surely veto it. And then they can blame him.

[pazzyanne]

29. I just read this a few minutes ago, so looks like there are people already working on solving this.

"Even if the Senate passes the resolution, it's unlikely to be enacted. It has drawn far less support in the House of Representatives, and Trump is unlikely to sign a resolution that would effectively rebuke his FCC chairman.

However, net-neutrality supporters are also seeking to overturn the FCC's action in federal courts and pushing measures that would offer net-neutrality protections within a state's borders."

We can only hope that this succeeds. They are framing it as the right to free speech I think.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Will Ryan even allow this to come to a vote?

This should be on the short list of issues that Democrats run on in the fall.

[onenote]

12. No he won't.

But you are right that it should be made an issue for the November elections.

[Ligyron]

28. Absolutely.

Since Ryan is retiring anyway, he doesn't mind the blame.

[S.E. TN Liberal]

20. The republican't don't want this to be a 2018 issue.

The Democrats are already using Net Neutrality and the republican't campaign to kill people's health insurance as campaign issues for 2018.

The republican'ts can't win running against Net Neutrality. They need this issue to go away now, preferably in a way they can claim they did something the American public wants.

A large majority of the young voters in this country understand the issue and oppose politicians who won't support Net Neutrality.

[NewJeffCT]

32. Republicans might take the chance, though

and hope that the young people don't turn out in the midterms, because they typically do not

[S.E. TN Liberal]

34. NewJeffCT, you may be right.

I think we are seeing a pretty highly motivated group of young people since TraitorTrump lied his way into the White House.

The republican'ts can't afford to take any chances their policies will drive even more youngsters to the polls in November.

[NewJeffCT]

39. Didn't the Governor of Arizona

what's her name, basically say that Hispanic voters don't turn out so they had no worries about Democrats making up ground in her state a few years back?

[S.E. TN Liberal]

44. NewJeffCT,

You do know things change, don't you?

The only true constant is that things change.

[NewJeffCT]

49. yes, understood

I've been a lifelong pessimist, though. I thought Hillary was going to win for sure in 2016 - so, my one recent time being optimistic saw my hopes dashed...

[marble falls]

10. Can not believe it.

[luc mont]

17. Me neither

It's gotta be yet another Republican trick!

[marble falls]

22. If they know cheetolini has a over-ride free veto, weak candidates can claim they stood up...

to cheetolini.

[luc mont]

26. Ah, Yes

Thank you for clarifying.

[Nanjeanne]

11. Excellent news! I like to think that Senator Al Franken is very pleased! Net Neutrality was his baby

[pazzyanne]

30. I am sure he is.

He addressed his support for net neutrality on one of his posts on his web site not long ago.

[IronLionZion]

13. Sweet! Finally some good news!

[defacto7]

14. Excellent...

[spicysista]

15. Yay!

Celebrate, good times!

[S.E. TN Liberal]

16. AT&T has bet $600,000, (at least), that TraitorTrump will kill Net Neutrality.

How much does AT&T have invested in the House?

[malaise]

36. Great question

but perhaps the $600,000 helped the Senate have a rethink

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. EXCELLENT news!

Because this is hypothetical, a bit esoteric and less than an epic drama at a quick glance, the importance of this might well be being lost in the background of govt. criminality. It could easily be that it is the biggest single item we've heard in months, and will be, until The Indictment is handed down.

It's more important than the smokiest smoking gun we've see to date, IMO.

[onenote]

25. In the end it will be helpful but not dramatically important

I'm glad Markey introduced the resolution of disapproval and glad it passed. And the Six incumbent republican senators that are running for re-election in November and that voted against the resolution should have that vote thrown in their face. But the resolution will never come up for a vote in the House. And to the extent its raised against any house member, its likely that their tactic will be to deflect by claiming that they support bi-partisan legislation to address the issue.

[Demsrule86]

19. That is awesome!

[Uncle Joe]

21. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread, kpete

[C Moon]

27. YES!!!

[AllaN01Bear]

31. bravo for the senate . happ y happ y joy joy.

[Vinca]

33. Amazing, but the serious Trumphumpers are in the House. No champagne yet.

[Cha]

35. What!!! This is like a Miracle! Those R Senators voted

yes.. 'cause they're vulnerable and their constituents aren't as brainwashed as the others?

Every computer user should want net neutrality.. not just Dems.

[onenote]

41. interestingly, the repubs up for reelection in 2018 all voted against the resolution

While the three repubs that voted for it don't face the voters again until 2020 (Collins) or 2022 (Kennedy and Murkowski).

[Cha]

43. That is interesting, onenote.. I have

a feeling their constituents still wouldn't like it very much if they voted "No".

Those other Rs are freaking hopeless.. hope it backfires on them somehow.

Mahalo!

[BigmanPigman]

37. Yeah, maybe our phone calls helped.

I have been calling and signing petitions for days now.

[nini]

42. I'm sure glad those Establishment Dems did this

Who knew?

[a kennedy]

45. Senator Kennedy?? From Louisiana??

and am I the only one when they say “John Kennedy” gets a little sick thinking he’s not a Democrat BUT A REPUB.??

[RandomAccess]

47. Oh thank heaven

I'm so relieved.

[IronLionZion]

48. Dems need to win the house and pass this there too

and of course throw out that steaming festering pile of shit from the white house and install Pelosi as President to sign it into law

[Raine]

50. THIS is VERY good news!

I know I signed plenty of petitions about this, so glad that both sides listened to the people for a change!

[orangecrush]

51. K&R!

[Dopers_Greed]

52. I'm surprised this happened under Cocaine Mitch