Prior to consideration of amendments:
A motion to postpone until the following
Wednesday by Mr. Gordon was tabled after a Tauzin motion to table the Gordon motion was
adopted by a yea-nay vote: 17-10.
The following amendments were offered:
An amendment by Mr. Upton, #1,
re: enforcement, was withdrawn by unanimous consent;
An amendment by Mr. Davis, #2,
re: transmission speed, was withdrawn by unanimous consent;
An amendment by Messrs. Rush and Sawyer, #3,
re: broadband deployment to underserved subscribers, was withdrawn by
unanimous consent;
An amendment by Mr. Davis, #4,
re: equal access for Internet service providers, was withdrawn by
unanimous consent;
An amendment by Mr. Largent, #1,
to strike section 4 (Limitation on Authority to Regulate High Speed Data Services), was not
adopted by a yea-nay vote: 14-19;
An amendment by Mr. Luther and Mrs. Wilson,
#6, re: shared use of existing lines, was withdrawn by
unanimous consent;
An amendment by Ms. Eshoo, #7,
re: service quality reporting and accounting, was withdrawn by unanimous
consent;
An amendment by Mr. Terry, #8,
re: dispute resolution, was withdrawn by unanimous consent;
An amendment by Ms. Eshoo, #9,
re: obligations of incumbent local exchange carriers, was withdrawn by
unanimous consent (during debate, the Eshoo amendment was amended by unanimous consent,
placing a period after 'service' in line 7);.
An amendment by Mr. Stearns, #10,
re: financial penalties, was withdrawn by unanimous consent;
An amendment by Mr. Markey, #11,
re: Internet charges prohibition, was ruled not germane;
An amendment by Mr. Shimkus, #12,
re: service quality, was withdrawn by unanimous consent;.
An amendment by Mr. Cox, #13,
re: parity with non-LEC competitors regarding subsidies, adopted by a
voice vote;
An amendment by Mr. Cox, #14,
preserving the current policy of no FCC regulation or taxation of the Internet, was adopted
by a voice vote.
An amendment by Mr. Markey, #15,
re: prohibition on marketing voice services, was adopted by a voice vote.
An amendment by Mr. Pickering, #16,
re: incumbent local exchange carrier certification of separability of voice and data
traffic over its network, was not adopted by a yea-nay vote: 10-21;
A substitute to the Pickering amendment by
Mr. Markey, #16A, re: definition of high speed data services, was ruled
not germane;
An amendment by Mr. Stearns, #17,
re: financial penalties, was adopted by a voice vote;
An amendment by Mrs. Wilson, #18,
re: data service provide requirement to separate wholesale and retail operations, was withdrawn
by unanimous consent.
