Impending fall elections derail compromise legislation as net neutrality is remanded back to the FCC.
Written by Chris Smith
Internet neutrality flashed back into the news last week after months of simmering in the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce. In the face of Republican opposition to his proposed network neutrality rules, committee chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., threw up his hands and gave up trying to reach a negotiated settlement on a set of compromise net neutrality rules.