Butterfield to Approve Save the Internet Act, Says Other Democratic Holdouts May, Too
Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., said Monday night he's “ready to roll” and vote to advance the Save the Internet Act net neutrality bill (HR-1644) out of the House Communications Subcommittee, increasing the bill's chances of clearing the subcommittee's Tuesday markup. Butterfield is among four House Communications Democrats who aren't listed as co-sponsors of HR-1644 and was viewed as the most skeptical of the bill during a legislative hearing earlier this month. The other three subcommittee Democrats who haven’t co-sponsored HR-1644 are: Tony Cardenas of California, Tom O'Halleran of Arizona and Kurt Schrader of Oregon.
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Butterfield predicted all three would also “vote for it.” The lawmakers' offices didn't immediately comment.
Butterfield would prefer to "roll out a new structure" rather than return to reclassification of broadband as a Communications Act Title II service. But he told reporters that "Title II is the best thing going right now."