Doyle 'Confident' a Pres. Biden Would Support Restoring '15 Net Neutrality Rules
House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle, D-Pa., is unconcerned former Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t said publicly whether he would support restoring FCC-rescinded 2015 net neutrality rules if elected president next year. Biden is among the few 2020 Democratic presidential…
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candidates who hasn’t taken a clear position on the issue (see 1908260053). “I feel confident” that if Biden becomes president, “he would work with” Congress and the FCC to bring back some form of the 2015 rules, Doyle told C-SPAN’s The Communicators, posted online Friday and set to have been televised this past weekend. “People across America” regardless of their party affiliation “would like to see us do something” on net neutrality but “I don’t see it as a primary issue” in voters’ decisions. Doyle led the House-passed Save the Internet Act (HR-1644), which would undo FCC rescission of the rules and restore reclassification of broadband as a Communications Act Title II service (see 1904100062). Doyle doesn’t “spend too much time worrying about” what any of the current 17 Democratic candidates’ positions are on tech and telecom given the large size of the field. He similarly deflected questions about a proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to “instruct the FCC to regulate broadband internet rates” (see 1912060066) and broadband funding plans from Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that appear to eschew allocating money to for-profit ISPs. House Commerce Committee Democrats “don’t base our policy on what one or two people running for president might say,” Doyle said. “Our committee has always worked in a bipartisan fashion.” He emphasized House Commerce’s ability to reach consensus, noting the committee advanced by voice vote his Television Viewer Protection Act. HR-5035 would make permanent some parts of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (see 1911200048). That bill is part of the basis for a bicameral STELA deal expected to be attached to FY 2020 federal spending legislation Congress may vote on this week (see 1912110038).