Ajit Pai Gloats As House Fails To Restore Net Neutrality

Ajit Pai Gloats As House Fails To Restore Net Neutrality

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190102/13225741320/ajit-pai-gloats-as-house-fails-to-restore-net-neutrality.shtml

While a long shot, we've previously discussed how the outgoing House and Senate could have voted to reverse the FCC's repeal of net neutrality using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). And while the Senate voted 52 to 47 to approve the move last May, efforts to get the 218 votes needed in the House had been stuck in neutral as House Representatives remained blindly loyal to their real constituents: AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast.

As a result the clock ran out, and that route for restoration of the rules has died a whimpering demise. As is his tendency, FCC boss Ajit Pai couldn't just savor the "win." He felt compelled to issue a public statement (pdf) in which he not only gloats over the failure, but packs a large number of false statements into a relatively short paragraph: