{"id":178927,"date":"2018-07-17T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/17\/the-first-pebble-hopefully-a-prelude-to-an-avalanche\/"},"modified":"2018-07-17T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:09:00","slug":"the-first-pebble-hopefully-a-prelude-to-an-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/17\/the-first-pebble-hopefully-a-prelude-to-an-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Pebble.  Hopefully a Prelude to an Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first House Republican has <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/397375-house-republican-backs-bill-to-reinstate-net-neutrality-rules\">has agreed to sign a discharge petition to overturn the repeal of net neutrality<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A bill that would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s net neutrality rules has won its first House GOP supporter \u2014 who is also one of the most vulnerable Republicans in this fall&#8217;s midterms.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) announced on Tuesday that he would be signing a discharge petition to bring the Congressional Review Act (CRA) bill up for a floor vote. He also revealed his own bill to codify the principles of net neutrality into law.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is in a highly competitive district, and he is not alone, and even a majority of rank and file Republicans support net neutrality, because everyone hates their cable company.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start feeling hopeful when the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Republican signs the discharge petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first House Republican has has agreed to sign a discharge petition to overturn the repeal of net neutrality: A bill that would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s net neutrality rules has won its first House GOP supporter \u2014 who is also one of the most vulnerable Republicans in this fall&#8217;s midterms.Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) &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":[447,375,367,374,437],"class_list":["post-178927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178927"}],"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=178927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}