GOP Fails to Sabotage FCC Lifeline Broadband Aid For the Poor. For Now.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fcc-lifeline-program-republicans-congress
Republican efforts to cripple a major federal program that
helps poor people afford mobile phone and broadband service
failed on Tuesday, after consumer advocates, public interest
groups, and Democratic lawmakers mounted an all-out push on
Capitol Hill to oppose the GOP proposals. In a rare rebuke to
the Republican majority leadership, the US House of
Representatives voted to maintain federal subsidies that help
low-income people afford mobile voice and internet service
through the s Lifeline program. A separate GOP-backed budget
amendment that public interest groups warned could severely
undermine the program was also withdrawn in the face of fierce
opposition.
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