Internet Regulation: Senate Vote

In previous Congresses, legislation to impose “net neutrality” was sponsored by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), most recently as S. 215 in 2007. Like the Markey-Eshoo bill, it would have imposed onerous restrictions on the private Internet by creating greater government control.  The bill attracted only 11 co-sponsors. One of them was then-Senator Barack Obama. The bill was not introduced in the Senate at all in the 111th Congress.