Senate to dodge net neutrality when it reauthorizes FCC

Senate Republicans aren’t expected to push for the repeal of President Obama’s net neutrality regulations when they markup legislation next week to reauthorize the Federal Communications Commission next week.

“I don’t think we’re going to see a lot of that,” Senate Republican Conference chairman John Thune, who also leads the Commerce Committee that is drafting the FCC reauthorization, told the Washington Examiner. “We want to get the FCC reauthorization done. We anticipate people will offer amendments, [and] we’re going to try to manage that process in a way that gets us to a result. And, there may be some [net neutrality] amendments, but I’m just not aware of that.”