{"id":177985,"date":"2019-04-08T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/08\/and-now-it-goes-to-the-floor\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T03:22:00","slug":"and-now-it-goes-to-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/08\/and-now-it-goes-to-the-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now it Goes to the Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Net neutrality legislation just <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2019\/04\/house-democrats-refuse-to-weaken-net-neutrality-bill-defeat-gop-amendments\/\">cleared the Commerce Committee<\/a>, beating back Republican attempts to emasculate the bill.<\/p>\n<p>I expect that there will be a further push by lobbyists before it hits the floor, and after that, it has to go to the Senate, so I am not optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>Between big cable, the Baby Bells, and the other rat-f%$#ers out there, I do not expect it make it through the legislative process unscathed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net neutrality legislation just cleared the Commerce Committee, beating back Republican attempts to emasculate the bill. I expect that there will be a further push by lobbyists before it hits the floor, and after that, it has to go to the Senate, so I am not optimistic. Between big cable, the Baby Bells, and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,367,449],"class_list":["post-177985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-internet","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}