No Senate Floor Vote Scheduled for Franchise Bill

NO FLOOR VOTE SCHEDULED FOR FRANCHISE BILL
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has not scheduled a floor vote this week for the video franchise bill, and is "highly unlikely to" given the already crowded schedule, according to a source close to the Leader's office. That likely means a September vote at the earliest. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is still lining up the 60 he needs to defeat a threatened filibuster of the bill over its absence of strong network neutrality provisions. Sen Frist has made it clear that he won't schedule a vote until he can be assured it won't take up floor time only to be mooted by a filibuster.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6358139?display=Breaking+News

See also --
* Why is Congress considering such anti-consumer telecom bills?
[SOURCE: Nieman Watchdag/Harvard University, AUTHOR: Bruce Kushnick]
Activist Bruce Kushnick writes that both telecom bills before Congress would be huge giveaways to the very same telecommunications giants that have in the past pocketed massive government subsidies while shafting consumers and knee-capping American competitiveness. But they've taken very good care of members of Congress.
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