Thank you for contacting me to share your support for the broadband provisions of Title II, commonly referred to as net neutrality.

Like you, I believe the internet has become a forum for innovation and creativity and should be protected. As you may know, net neutrality regulations were put in place in 2015 in order to classify internet providers as public utilities. This reclassification was an attempt to prevent internet service providers from "discriminating" against individuals or content companies by charging extra fees for guaranteeing priority on their broadband networks.

In effect, however, this may cause additional congestion and reduce the supply of bandwidth available to consumers, meaning higher costs and slower internet connections. Moreover, these rules have discouraged small businesses and entrepreneurs from investing in our telecommunications infrastructure.

As you are likely aware, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai has expressed support for eliminating net neutrality. To provide a public comment on this decision, I encourage you to visit FCC.gov. As it stands, the House of Representatives has not considered legislation addressing net neutrality. Rest assured I will remember your support should this the issue be considered as the 115th Congress moves forward.

Again, I appreciate your thoughts and it is an honor to serve you in Congress. Please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future.

Sincerely,


Lloyd Smucker
Member of Congress

Werthless wrote:Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. But since the number is still far greater than it should be, I decided against making that point myself. We'll see what Alabamans think; it's there where he's least unpopular, so it will be interesting to see what percentage of the vote he gets. 40% feels crazy high, but who knows where sentiment will shift right before the election? Polls for Trump in mid October were looking quite grim...

jerseyhoya wrote:BSG thought experiement, pretend you're an Alabama voter, and everything was the same about the Alabama Senate race except the allegations had come out about Jones rather than Moore, how would you vote on December 12th?

Bucky wrote:BSG thought experiment, pretend you're an Alabama voter, and everything was the same as it is today. And you're a republican. how would you vote on December 12th?

Bill McNeal wrote:My house rep responded to me today

Thank you for contacting me to share your support for the broadband provisions of Title II, commonly referred to as net neutrality.

Like you, I believe the internet has become a forum for innovation and creativity and should be protected. As you may know, net neutrality regulations were put in place in 2015 in order to classify internet providers as public utilities. This reclassification was an attempt to prevent internet service providers from "discriminating" against individuals or content companies by charging extra fees for guaranteeing priority on their broadband networks.

In effect, however, this may cause additional congestion and reduce the supply of bandwidth available to consumers, meaning higher costs and slower internet connections. Moreover, these rules have discouraged small businesses and entrepreneurs from investing in our telecommunications infrastructure.

As you are likely aware, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai has expressed support for eliminating net neutrality. To provide a public comment on this decision, I encourage you to visit FCC.gov. As it stands, the House of Representatives has not considered legislation addressing net neutrality. Rest assured I will remember your support should this the issue be considered as the 115th Congress moves forward.

Again, I appreciate your thoughts and it is an honor to serve you in Congress. Please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future.

Sincerely,


Lloyd Smucker
Member of Congress

Somehow I’m part of the 16th district while my neighbors are part of the 7th. How do they come up with these maps, literally makes no sense to me.

District 7 has a shape so incongruous, it’s known as “Goofy Kicking Donald Duck.” Look at the way it snakes across five different counties, spreading from the suburbs in Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia, down to the state line in Delaware County (but skirting around the City of Chester), and then west to Chester County, north to Berks County, and even over to a few bits of Lancaster County. These lines don’t respect community boundaries. They reflect political manipulation.

District 16 uses what’s known as a “lasso”: it takes Reading, one of the poorest urban communities in the country, and connects it with a tiny leash to Lancaster County, which is primarily populated by farms and small towns. As a result, politicians serving this district end up ignoring the needs of Reading. Looking at this map, it’s no surprise that Reading has the most underfunded school district in the country—because politicians aren’t paying attention to the city’s needs.

But experts say the players for the U.C.L.A. team, who were accused of stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China, probably would have been released even if Mr. Trump had not raised the case with President Xi Jinping during a visit this month to Beijing.

Shoplifting is considered a relatively minor crime in China, and foreigners convicted of minor crimes are often deported rather than given prison sentences.

“It’s nonsense,” Fu Hualing, a law professor at the University of Hong Kong, said of Mr. Trump’s assertion that his intervention was solely responsible for the athletes’ release. “I would be surprised if they were even prosecuted.”

td11 wrote:https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/933415420551487488

Steve King is an open white supremacist. The GOP has actually become an even safer haven for pieces of #$!&@ like him in the last few years

td11 wrote:https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/933415420551487488

Steve King is an open white supremacist. The GOP has actually become an even safer haven for pieces of #$!&@ like him in the last few years

Monkeyboy wrote:

Werthless wrote:Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. But since the number is still far greater than it should be, I decided against making that point myself. We'll see what Alabamans think; it's there where he's least unpopular, so it will be interesting to see what percentage of the vote he gets. 40% feels crazy high, but who knows where sentiment will shift right before the election? Polls for Trump in mid October were looking quite grim...

I think you guys are underestimating how bad things are getting, but maybe I'm overstating things. I am feeling really negative. This is just a new low by a party that has been pushing us lower and lower. One preacher came out and said Moore was only after young girls because of their purity. I'm just so disgusted.

I think the GOP votes will come home to roost as they always do. The Franken and Conyer issues will give them the justification to vote for Moore. All they needed was some small way to justify it. If Moore does lose, I will be seriously heartened. I may even fist pump and yell "America!"

jerseyhoya wrote:BSG thought experiement, pretend you're an Alabama voter, and everything was the same about the Alabama Senate race except the allegations had come out about Jones rather than Moore, how would you vote on December 12th?

JUburton wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:BSG thought experiement, pretend you're an Alabama voter, and everything was the same about the Alabama Senate race except the allegations had come out about Jones rather than Moore, how would you vote on December 12th?

That's easy. Don't vote.

The Savior wrote:

JUburton wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:BSG thought experiement, pretend you're an Alabama voter, and everything was the same about the Alabama Senate race except the allegations had come out about Jones rather than Moore, how would you vote on December 12th?

That's easy. Don't vote.

But tax reform?!?