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The current version of the COPE Act
(HR 5252)Now the ''"Advanced Telecommunications and Opportunities Reform Act"'' or the '''''"Communications Act of 2006"''''' -- and has another entry here as the Telecommunications Act Of 2005 includes Network Neutrality provisions defined by
the FCC . An amendment offered by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) would have supplemented these with a prohibition against service tiering (the consumer's choice to pay more to get more). The COPE Act was passed by the full House on June 8, 2006; the Markey Amendment
failed Final vote results for Roll Call 239 - XML U.S. House of Representatives. Roll no. 239 8 June 2006 leaving the final bill without meaningful network neutrality provisions.

The US Senate is also involved in the issue. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has introduced the Internet Nondiscrimination Act Of 2006 , and Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) are expected to introduce a bipartisan amendment supporting Net Neutrality when the Senate takes up its own rewrite (the " Communications, Consumer's Choice, And Broadband Deployment Act Of 2006 ", aka S. 2686) of the Telecommunications Act Of 1996 A common notion expressed throughout related pages -- that this Bill is a 'rewrite' of the Telecommunications Act Of 1996 . later this year.


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