Political Quotes

“as the minority, we typically cannot move legislation on the floor without the consent of the majority leader. But under the rules governing congressional review, any group of 30 Senators can petition to discharge a CRA--a Congressional Review Act--from the committee and bring it to the floor subject to a majority vote. That is what Senator Markey has just done with the CRA on net neutrality, and the vote that just concluded means the full Senate will now consider it, because I believe there were 52 votes in favor. For the first time in this Congress, the majority will be called to vote on an issue that I suspect they would rather avoid. Net neutrality is a complex issue, but an incredibly consequential one. At stake is the future of the internet, which until this point in our history, has remained free and open, accessible and affordable to most Americans. That fundamental equality of access is what has made the internet so dynamic--a catalyst for innovation, a tool for learning, a means of instant and worldwide communication. To ensure the internet stayed that way, the Obama-era FCC instituted net neutrality rules to prevent large internet service providers from segmenting the internet into fast and slow lanes, from selling faster service to folks who could pay and slower service to others--we didn't want that--and from charging customers more for their favorite sites, divvying up the internet into packages like cable TV. Why was this so important?…”