On partisan lines, a House subcommittee on Communications and Technology has voted to disapprove the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, which were enacted in December. The vote was 15 ayes and eight nays.

“The Internet works pretty well. It’s the government that doesn’t,” insisted Greg Walden (R-OR), who made the opening comments at today’s House hearing. “There is no crisis warranting intervention. The Internet is not broken,” agreed the subcommittee’s chair Fred Upton (R-MI). “The market has not failed.”

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Key House subcommittee votes to undo net neutrality rules