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# Blue Dog Dems Hedge Bets on Net Neutrality
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/blue-dog-dems-hedge-bets-on-net-neutrality/
- Published: 2009-10-16T22:31:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:40:12.000Z
- Description: In a possible rebuke to President Obama and his new FCC chairman, Seventy-two House Democrats signed on to a letter sent Friday to the five members of the Federal Communications Commission asking them to reconsider a proposal to adopt “network neutrality” rules.
- Author: Broadband Breakfast
- Tags: FCC, Broadband Updates, Net Neutrality, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Congressional Black Causus, Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-02-01 10:30, #added-preview-divider

In a possible rebuke to President Obama and his new FCC chairman, 72 House Democrats signed on to a letter sent Friday to the five members of the Federal Communications Commission asking them to reconsider a proposal to adopt “network neutrality” rules. Among the members who signed the letter include leaders of the Blue Dog coalition – a group of conservative-leaning Democrats, and leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus.

“It’s a pity that 72 members of the Blue Dog Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus are deserting one of the fundamental planks of President Obama’s platform – a free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet,” said Public Knowledge co-founder Gigi Sohn. “The people who those members of Congress represent are the most at risk from the closed, controlling Internet that the phone and cable companies want.”