The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee’s 11-to-11 vote means the Net neutrality amendment will not be added to a wide-ranging broadband bill as it goes to the Senate floor. The amendment, offered by Senators Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, and Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, would have prevented broadband providers such as AT&T and Comcast from charging extra based on the type of content transmitted by Internet-based companies.
The amendment would bring new regulation to the Internet, committee Republicans argued. Snowe was the lone Republican voting for the amendment.
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