S J RES 34 YEA-AND-NAY YEA = 215 Republicans. NAY = 15 Republicans and 190 Democrats, total 205.
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services”
March 29, 2017 - Congressman Tom McClintock released the following statement on SJ RES 34.
Broadband Internet Service Providers (usually your cable or telephone company) typically require customers to agree to share private information such as their browsing and search histories and downloads, as a condition of getting access to the Internet -- information which the ISP then sells to various vendors.
The FCC promulgated a rule that requires the ISP to give you a choice of whether you want this information shared with third parties. This resolution rescinds that rule.
This is a fundamental privacy issue.
You have a choice in subscribing to search or social sites – if you don’t agree with Google’s privacy policy, you can use some other service whose terms you find more pleasing. Agreements with such companies are purely a matter of choice, with which government should not interfere.
But the ISP’s are different. Consumers have little -- if any -- choice of Internet Service Providers, because government severely restricts competition. As long as free choice cannot protect the consumer, rules like this are necessary.
Source: Congressman Tom McClintock