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More to make sure they either pay for have internet lines go down. This has been the essential 21st century innovation to those of bigur corporations instead of making sure main street innovators do what they do w best for total think the American People want Cable Companies to be the gatekeeper. They want to have the sec continue to play a role to make sure that the open internet is therefore also Small Businesses and innovators can continue to build and communicating with their consumers and Business Partners for without having artificially slowed down mines. Who does this impact . Seniors with tell a health and students from learning slowing down of the education mines families accessing it to usual tools for children and the highway so important to make sure that new internet businesses are started could be impacted. Reason to one make sure we do everything we can from implementing their rule to make sure we give consumers the protection of the neutrality it will harm the internet economy last summer we had a town meeting and heard from many constituents so that the chairman would understand why this would impact us so much but let me understand what is happening. The fcc had rules that prevented companies from throttling were blocking and have paved the way too many great successes we have fortune 500 companies and is responsible for 7 percent of the nation gdp at 6. 9 million jobs in the United States why would you change the rules now . Making sure critical protections are in t place and replace them with the ability for Certain Companies to wreak havoc on this economy . Thirteen of Washington State depends on the selfie internet sector 250,000 jobs when the nation is looking to see they have had enough wage growth with the middleclass earning bordets tech jobs are a bedrock for the middle class. Chairman pai was not focused on the 13,000 ted companies in the state of washington our to under 50,000 jobs in the 13 the states economy justice past weekend my colleagues and i met with many of these Small Businesses and their messageag was loud and clear, please stop chairman pai from ruining the internet by taking away key protections to make sure our businesses run successfully. He is abandoning the consumer he swore an oath to serve and is turning his back on innovators and has changed the direction for the innovation economy. He thinks it is a light touch but it is no touched than what we need is to make sure that these companies do not artificially charge consumers or main street for what theyre already doingoi now and successfully. Obviously the open internet r rule has fuelled the innovation economy perked every Business Plan or start up runs and the ability to contact consumers with this much economy at stake was not continue to make mistakes. Lets fight here in the senate to make sure we stop chairman pai and the fcc from having the resources to implement the rule. Is important to continue to fight for every street entrepreneurs in the innovation in the economy to have the old bin internet as they have said this weekend so to say they will make the decisions and in control and not competition and to slow down one of the best parts of our economy. I hope we joey in the fight to stop from any manner possible from the implementing what is literally a very anticompetitive strategy to refocus on big corporations instead of the innovation in the economy of the future. I yield the floor. Madammr president i want to thank all my colleagues sinner cantwell for doing me on the of lower on behalf of millions of constituents and tens of millions with those thatto support a fair and Free Internet i am pleased to come to the floor of National Importance of our economy and democracy of Net Neutrality. People have stopped and asked me recently what exactly is that neutrality . The technical answer is the principal that Internet Service providers like verizon at t or comcast those that you pay each month for your Broadband Service cannot discriminate against the content providers. So now the simple explanation is no one owns the internet. Everyone can use the internet. Anyone can improve the b internet but that is not the case of the Trump Administration, chairman pai and republicans have their way they want to get rid of a the fcc Net Neutrality rules so that the isis peas can indiscriminately slowdown the web sites were block websites and make it harder or maybe even impossible for inventors are our entreprenuers are Small Businesses with the lifeblood of the American Economy to connect to the internet. Thatat is why we are here this afternoon on the floor and why supporters of a free and open n internet are vigorously opposed to the attempt of the neutrality that allows the internet to flourish. The sec is voting on a proposal that cuts at the very heart of a free and open internet. They are voting to roll back protections and send a love letter to the Big Broadband companies that stand to make huge profits without these rules. To so what are chairman pai and his buddies really trying to do . First, that the rules against blocking. What does that mean . That the Internet Service provideran could block any web site including a complete a competing service, a contrary political view. Second chairman pai would cut thetl rule that means the Internet Service provider could slow down any web site that it wants and third tee period chairman pai to have paid printers asian. So that means the Internet Service provider could charge websites for the fast lane meaning they go quicker while those that cannot afford the internet easy passage is stuck on the gravel path more time to load frustrating consumers with long buffers time. And then chairman pai looking at general conduct rule. That means that that would protect consumers from harm such as data cancer and other discriminatory behavior that i is peas think of it in the coming months or years ahead and then to create the unregulated interconnection market. What does that mean . The fcc would move its authority to oversee places where i is peas connect to the internet and extract fees and finally chairman pai was to prevent states and localities from adopting their own Net Neutrality protections. So what would be the replacement for the enforceable neutrality rules today . Absolutely nothing. He leaves it to the Internet Service providers to regulate themselves in this internet wild west. Meanwhile chairman pai claims the federal trade commission not the fcc not the one of expertise of communications with the trade commission somehow provide a sufficient backstop for bad behavior by the isp but that is simply not true. Under the federal trade commission and the of broad bad broadband would establish a tone that neutrality policy that is letting the of police develop their own playground rules and if the ideas he wants to block websites to slow downno competitors web sites or charge innovators to reach customers they will be free to do so because the ftc can only step bin if a broadband provider violates its own policy at that is created private company itself they have a written policy to charge for the fast lane there is nothing the ftc can do about it and that is ridiculous and it is wrong. Along with a broad band industry to set their own and neutrality protection is like letting the fox guard the hen house. Okay. Day ftc oversight will not work and chairman by says he has another solution called transparency that i espys are transparent of their neutrality practices that consumers and businesses can simply choose to use of broadband provider with neutrality. But what good is transparency when most americans have little or no choice for highspeed broad band access . 62 percent of americans have only one choice for the nearly twothirds of the country who can purchase broadband. So that means if a household only choice is a transparent than the consumer has two choices. Except the Internet Service providers choice for live without the internet that is a false choice. People do not want to live without the internet in the 21st century. So now chairman pai also claims isp support Net Neutrality but just not be open internet type under which we are living today to say you support democracy but not the constitution you like math but you hate numbers for gore makes no sense. Fighting at the fcc in the courts to block the neutrality rules. The broad band is deeply opposed to Net Neutrality because they want to drive of their profits by setting up the internet fast and slovenes to charge consumers more for less. Is a simple formula. Chairman pai also claims the broadband investment has been discouraged by open internet and that is false, investment in broadband infrastructure is stronger than ever and with that 5g technology on the horizon we can expect a strong investment to continue. Friday and investment on the aggregate has increased in the two years since the fcc passedus the open end internet to order so with a broad ban speeds that have also increased meaning the highest peas have proven what they offered to their consumers and in 2016 almost half of those funds invested went to internet specific and Software Companies 25 billion worth of investment. Investment in broadband and Wireless Technology and job creation is high in Venture Capital is high. Chairman pai for in stooge disrupted this to squash innovation online. It is clear americans do not want what the fcc is proposing. This seems like the only supporter of this plan is a broad band c industry. Chairman pai and his colleagues turned a deaf ear to people standing up for netpp neutrality and approve their plan we will continue the fight elsewhere with the obama rules challenged by the highest peas in 2015 i wrote a congressional negative congressional brief and we will do the same fame this b time in defense of that neutrality and then also intend to file a Congressional Review Act their resolution of disapproval with a number of my colleagues of the United States v senate can vote to undo chairman pai proposal to restore the 2015 open internet order. The Trump Administration has an all out assault on our core protections like the affordable d care act, a paris clavichord, and and now the fcc puts Net Neutrality in its sights. For all of those that rely and the free and open Internet Health care or entertainment i urge you to join in in this fight to create a firestorm of opposition to this assault on the neutrality. This is a fundamental attack upon the openness of the internet and we must now have that bonding of ordinary americans for those that want to shut down that neutrality. Thank you maddow president. I yield back. Maddow of president. There are a handful of the innovations that have redefined the United States and the entire world real roads and the cotton gin and electricity in the automobile or just a few examples however without question, a broad base and internet is one of the defining innovations of our time. That connects rural and urban communities to tell of medicine, education and International Commerce for contract Broadband Internet is essentialal for communications in the modern era and lets us keep in touch with our loved ones a matter where they live and boost productivity across every single industry. And most importantly to revolutionize our economy leading to millions of new jobs. The ability to instantly reach consumers wherever they live has allowed american Small Businesses and startups to compete with large Global Corporations in a way that was unimaginable a couple of decades ago. Michigan is home to 850,000 Small Businesses and a growingin number of startups. And put america on the cutting edge of the interconnected Economy Michigan Small Businesses can compete and innovate because of the free and open structure of the internet but unfortunately these are atil risk tomorrow the sec will vote to eliminate current projections that stop large corporations from stifling Small Businesses and harming the American People. I think the facts are straightforward and the fcc is wrong. They should stop what theyreee doing and keep the current protections in place. The current rules i have consistently supported prevent bias peas from blocking, slowing or prioritizing web traffic for their own financialhe been at the expense of Small Businesses and every day internet users. The fccs actions rollback these protections to usher in a new era of the twotiered internet that can pay for the fast lane and the slow for the rest of us. This allows ideas peas in multinational corporations to compete unfairly against startups to a slowdown in traffic and to play gatekeeper to potential customers for girl let me be clear repealing that tight and neutrality is and innovation it is anticompetition. Repealing that neutrality is anticonsumer. The fcc should not consider this proposal tomorrow to degrade Internet Service especially at a time when 20 million households in rural i america including michigan still lack access to highspeed Broadband Internet the sec has a lot of work to do to close the digital divided repealing the neutrality takes a country backwards, not forward of the internet does not grow then the economy will be heard for generations to come. Highspeed broadband and thatis neutrality is as vital as electricity was of the 20th century all deserve access regardless of income was a code. We accomplished awe bullhorn and to brings electricity to every place even in the rural area to make it a National Priority. We need to make access to Broadband Internet with strong protection is a National Priority today. By preserving active neutrality we put students, artists and advocates and other visionaries to invent the future to create the next big thing ahead of said handful of multinational corporations. The fcc should call off this dangerous vote and instead to work to make sure the internet is the hub of creativity and entrepreneurship and competition. Madam president i ask unanimous consent the remainder of remarks appear elsewhere in the record. Without objection. A over two months ago listed in this chamber urging colleagues to pass legislation to prevent kids enrolled in the Childrens Health Insurance Program from losing their health care. The Childrens Health Insurance Program or chip provides coverage to over 100,000 children in my home state of michigan and 9 million children nationwide. I recall welcoming the news that since senator hatch and why did reach a bipartisan agreement to extend the Health Care Benefits for the children. They Work Together and went throughel regular order, the finance Committee Held a hearing in m the markup of the bill in october. We although regular order is a very rare event in the senate today and i appreciated a bipartisan effort to have a senate vote on a bill that is critical to our nations children. I expected this bill would come to the floor and pass with broad bipartisan in relief bringing families across the nation never worried their children would have health care in 2018. Story a amount of funds within weeks. In my home state of michigan i heard from parents who are worried about whether their children will still be able to see their pediatrician next year. Ive also heard from pediatricians who take care of these children how children will be heard if their health care is taken away. It would be unconscionable to rip Healthcare Services away from children during the most formative years of their life. It would be unconscionable to put more roadblocks up for families whose children need annual physicals and vaccines before they can go to school and it would be unconscionable to increase Health Care Costs for working families who are just trying to keep their children healthy and give them the opportunity to prosper. This is not a partisan issue. In 1997 president clinton worked with a republican majority in the senate and house of representatives to successfully pass the Childrens Health Insurance Program into law. Thatat legislation passed with 5 votes in the senate because providing needed Health Services to children should never be a partisan issue. The program has been reauthorized on a bipartisan basis since its inception because it is effective. Its working for the nations children, and we should be, too. I urge my colleagues to call for a vote on the legislation to extend andpa pass it without delay. Lets do whats right for our countrys children and families and pass this Bipartisan Legislation now. Thank you madam president , i yield the floor. The senator from vermont. Before i begin i would ask unanimous consent that my judiciary staff be granted or fr privileges for the remainder of the 115th congress. Without objection. I think the distinguished presiding officer. Madam president ,de this week the federal Communications Commission the fcc is preparing a giant early Christmas Present to a deeppocketed Telecom Company as it prepares to reveal Net Neutrality protections that are actually critical. Net neutrality, the simple principle of the internet should be kept free and open by preventing a corporations who control the connections to block certain content especially that of competitors. Repealing Net Neutrality rules will benefit just a few powerful corporations and ignore all the rest t of us and they will do so at the expense of Small Businesses, consumers, hardworking americans whose persistent and passionate voices on this issue have been ignored by the republican majority. Everybody has been calling for public hearings on the current protections that are developed. The chairman has failed to heed his own advice in the fcc. He wanted the public hearings before but now that hes in charge we dont need public hearings anymore. Basically to say the chairman knows better, the heck with you taxpayers. The only people he listens to are theed deep pockets of the lobbyists. If you are a concerned citizen or Small Business owner, your voice doesnt matter to this fcc. As public hearings on this issue in 2014 i can tell you theres widespreathere iswidespread supt neutrality just about everywhere except the fcc itself. If the chairman took the time to listen as i did he would hear from Small Business owners like the Vermont Country store who told me we are not asking for special treatment and send us subsidies. Allnt the Small Business communy has to preserve and protect internet commerce as it a exists today which is to serve offices remarkably well. Im hearing this from small and bigg businesses saying they should all be protected from the competition. Just today received letters from businesses in Northern New England including vermonts own ben and jerrys ice cream, cooperative and king arthur flour discussing the crippling effect of the Net Neutrality rules and thee effect on the rural businesses. I would ask unanimous consent this letter be placed in the record at the conclusion of my remarks. Without objection. Libraries for some communities are the only way to access the internet. I come from a small state but every single senator here has rural areas in their states and those areas have libraries and they need to be accessing the internet. As the state library it was told to me all americans including the most disenfranchised citizens those that hav have noy to access the internet without thee library need to be able to use internet resources on an equal footing. He would also hear from independent content creators whose voices are often not heard on the traditional media. As the writer and producer told me if the unprecedented nondiscriminatory or in the unprecedented world of the nondiscriminatory internet no longer did low budgets and no connections mean theres no way in. Never again would we be disregarded. Who are you to have your story be told. Of course the answer if you have Net Neutrality you are whoever wants to tell your story and these are the voices being ignored. The chairmans misguided plan. This is not about partisanship. Republicans and democrats joined calling for an open internet. Republicans and democrats in my state and every other state benefit from the power of an open internet. They also, republicans and democrats are equally armed if the openness goes away. None of us should support a process that will dismisses the voices of ourha constituents. I hope all senators will join me on calling on the fcc to ban this vote to repeal Net Neutrality and i might add in the conclusion that i know there are some with a a lot of money o want to do away with the next atrocityus even filing thousands of comments with the fcc saying they want to do away with Net Neutrality. One of those comments came to my attention. It has m had my name and my home address. Most people saw it and just laughed. They knew it was fake but i worry about whos spending money to make these paid comments. I will yield the floor. Madam president rightbrace today to join with the senatoren from vermont in opposition to the planned vote to end Net Neutralityte protection. Tomorrow the fcc will hold a vote on their plan to eliminate Net Neutrality on the chairmans plan. These rulesay kept the internet free and open and in a day when a lot of things are not working this is something that was actually working. People were able to access the internet, people in my state thathat maybe didnt have the ae resources, kids were able to access the internet to do their homework. It was working but it will put Internet Service providers in charge of determining the future of the internet. Net neutrality holds Internet Service providers accountable for providing the Internet Access consumers expect while protecting innovation and competition. It a is the red cross is a fast, free and open internet. Net neutrality has allowed the internet to become one of the Great American Success Stories transforming not only how we communicate with our friends and family that the way we do business, help consumers buy goods, how we educatee our kids. These protections have worked. We have kids that couldnt access classes before and are able to get these classes on the internet. We have Small Businesses that are able to advertise their services in a way that no one would have known that they existed and one of my favorites is a Company Called weve got mail and its a group of about ten or 15 employees starting with nothing but one chain and then they are able to come up with a cool nickname and able to advertise on the internet directly to consumers and now they are one of the biggest employers in the town right on the canadian border. These internet protections that have allowed Small Businesses to blaster them have allowed consumers to access the internet like everyone else. If the fcc vote tomorrow, the internet may soon be changing. Earlier this year when the chairman announced his proposal to eliminate Net Neutrality protections, americans took the opportunity to make their voices heard during the Public Comment through code that was received a record 23 million comments. While many are written by consumers worried about the future of the internet, there is reason to be concerned about the process. Approximately 1 million fraudulent comments were filed with the fcc and an additional halfmillion comments were filed with russian email addresses. Sound familiar . I think so. I think everyone in the chamber knows russia has been trying to influence the democracy in every way they can from hacking to putting up propaganda to now trying to insert itself in a c comment process for our free and open internet, something that has been the hallmark of american society, something that they dont have in russia. Just think, an additional halfmillion comment were filed from the russian email addresses. This is troubling because in america, the Public Comment process matters. Its one of the few opportunities they have to weigh in directly with the fcc. That is why i joined several of my colleagues in calling on the chairman to delay the vote until the fcc fully investigated these fake and foreign comments. The fcc is still moving ahead with its vote despite the 23 million comments they are still movingai ahead with their vote. Under the chairmans plan, they give internetty Service Provides the ability to significantly change consumers experience online. Internet Service Providers prioritize web traffic for their own financial gain, not for the average citizen but for bears. This means Internet Service providers can begin sorting online traffic into fast or slow lanes and charging consumers extra for highspeed broadband. They would also be able to slow consumers connections once theyve hit a certain limit or that they are viewing content from a competitor and Internet Service providers may even block of content they dont want their subscribers to access. So much for an open internet. The only protections maintained under the order our requirements for Service Providers to disclose their internet policies. Ne however for consumers with only one choice for Internet Service like any in my state and like many in rural areas, there is no opportunity to comparison shop or find a new provider if they are not happy with their service. This means even though consumers may be unaware that their Internet Service provider is blocking or slowing their connection, they dont have a choice. Ny so what does this information matter to them anyway . This proposal will harm consumers particularly in rural areas implement competition and hurt Small Business entrepreneurship and innovation. What ive seen around this place is everyone is talking about rural broadband. I want to expand broadband. You can expand all you want, but its not going to matter if people cant afford tot. Access it. A truly open internet encourages Economic Growth and provides opportunities fors businesses to reach new markets, drive innovation and create jobs. Small businesses remain engines of job creation and Net Neutrality levels the Playing Field allowing the Small Companies to compete with more established brands. Thats what america is about, allowing more innovation and Small Companies to come up and compete. Unfortunately for Small Businesses and startups across the country, the Net Neutrality repeal will mean barriers like competing online. Without unrestricted access to the internet, entrepreneurs may be forced to pay for equal footing toan compete online ratr business. Small businesses unable to pay for access to faster Internet Service may soon debate could soon find themselves struggling to compete from the slow lane coming up fast lane. This proposal will hurt the very people creating jobs and keeping our economy competitive. As a strong supporter of a free and open internet, it is clear that repealing Net Neutrality is a step in the wrong direction. We are facing an increasingly global and interconnected economy and it is critical that the internet remained that at entrepreneurship, creativity and fair competition. The fight to protect net atrocity is far from over and we need to keep the pressure on. We have seen merger after merger and consolidated business is bigger and bigger and bigger. So now i what is the next step . To limit Net Neutrality and make it harder for the small guys, the ones trying to get to market to compete. Its not just an isolated philosophy. Its part of a larger philosophy which means thele smaller compay that individuals are going to have a hard time getting in the market and getting free access like the big guys. Thats why we asked fishermen to reconsider the vote on thursday and come up with a new policy that doesnt hurt the peopleit f america. Its no surprise today that as the vast majority of americans dont favorty getting rid of Net Neutrality and in fact it shows a vast majority of republicans dont favor getting rid of Net Neutrality. So we ask the chairman who was appointed by a republican president has turned into reconsider his decision. Thank you mr. President and i will deal with war. The floor. The senator from massachusetts. We are in the middle o of a andn important debate in washington. Republicans have hatched a partisan proposal behind closed doors that were to shovel a trillion dollars in tax giveaways to giant corporations and the wealthy while undermining the health care and raising taxes for millions of middleclass families. If it passes, it could affect the

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