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Idioteque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:16 PM
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Heads up! The House is voting on Ed Markey's net neutrality amendment!
Five minute vote.
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:17 PM
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1. And failing.
Goddamnit.
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Idioteque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:19 PM
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2. Looks like about 1/3 of Dems have sold out to the Bells...
...fuckers.
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:23 PM
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3. we won, right?
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Idioteque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:24 PM
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4. Errrrrrrrwrong! :( n/t
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:26 PM
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6. no the bill would "change the rules".
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:26 PM
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8. oh no.
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:25 PM
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5. what the hell? the bill failed, and they are reading the bill again.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:27 PM
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9. motion to recommit to the desk
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survivor999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:28 PM
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11. What is that?
Sorry...
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Idioteque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:29 PM
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13. A motion to recommit is the minority's last chance to amend the bill...
It sends the bill back to committee with instructions to change the bill after it has been amended on the floor. It almost never passes.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:26 PM
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7. i missed it!
what was the total?
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survivor999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:28 PM
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10. Are they gonna stay up all night
like during the Medicare biz?... Till people vote in favor because of exhaustion and pressure?...
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ralps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:32 PM
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14. I think the total was 262 to 151 but I'm not sure
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 08:33 PM by ralps
:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :grr:
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:29 PM
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12. I was really confused with this.
The Rs were making sense and the Ds were coming across like dictators. What did I miss? I don't understand it. The internet as messy as it is seems to work and the Rs said, "don't fix what isn't broken." I agree. So I know somewhere there is something I don't understand.
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Idioteque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:33 PM
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15. Dems support net neutrality...
What that means is making it law that ISPs must treat all data equally. If net neutrality isn't made law, an ISP that is paid by yahoo could make yahoo faster than google. An ISP that hates Democrats could block DU and so on.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:35 PM
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16. Thanks. It clears it up a little for me.
:-)
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INdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:41 PM
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19. I'm confused ..
do we still have the internet just as it was or will the Verizon's control it?I cant believe some Democrats sold out for a cmapaign chest sponsored by the telecoms
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Idioteque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:43 PM
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21. Right now, we have net neutrality because it is the FCC's policy.
Markey wanted to make it law but the amendment failed. Thus, if the FCC changes it's policy or refuses to enforce it, we lose it.
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:48 PM
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22. oh, sorry for my ignorance. that makes sense.
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INdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:09 PM
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23. I can understand money grabbing Repubs
going along with the big money spread around the beltway by the telecoms but why would a Democrat sell out so easily? We need to keep writing and calling. Its very interesting reading and more petitions if you'd like to sign and send on to the Reps in DC......... www.savetheinternet.com
I would think that this being an election year Congress would act very cautiously on this issue.
I'm still a little confused but doesn't the Senate have to act on this yet?
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survivor999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:38 PM
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17. Don't forget that NRA and The Christian Coalition
Support Net Neutrality as well. For their own reasons, of course...
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:40 PM
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18. Ahaaa!
There's always that hidden agenda, isn't there, no matter how logical something seems?
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:42 PM
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20. deleting. I was uninformed.
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 08:48 PM by robinlynne
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