White House to GOP: Drop Ideological Riders

The White House has again signaled that it can't support a budget agreement that includes "ideological riders" insisted on by Republican legislators, riders like those that would limit network neutrality rules strongly championed by that White House.

House and Senate Democrats are widely expected to pass a short-term Continuing Resolution to keep the government open past the Dec. 11 deadline and push the battle over a final bill, including over the riders, until mid-week during the week of Dec 14. Among the riders at issue are ones that would grandfather joint sales agreements that would otherwise be treated as attributable ownership interests in a March 2014 FCC decision, block funding of new network neutrality rule implementation until legal challenges were resolved and not allowing those new net neutrality rules to result in rate regulation.