A measure from congressional Democrats to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules is most likely dead on arrival. But the party’s top brass is throwing its weight behind the effort anyway — signaling it’s an issue the party’s betting might resonate with 2020 voters.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and about 40 other Senate Democrats are lining up behind a bill to reverse a decision by President Trump’s Federal Communications Commission and reinstate 2015 rules to make the Internet a public utility and prevent cable and Internet companies from blocking sites they don’t like or speeding up a web site’s traffic in exchange for money.
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