The U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee just voted to overturn Ajit Pai and restore net neutrality

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The Save the Internet Act now heads to the full U.S. House of Representatives, where it will be voted on NEXT WEEK.

The only problem? Verizon, AT&T, and their cronies in D.C. are doubling down on their lies to try to gut the bill on the House floor.

Overwhelming public support for net neutrality is the reason the Save the Internet Act has made it this far — without any weakening amendments from Verizon or their ilk.

Voters swept in more than 40 new members to the House last year who back a free and open internet. But Democrats who took money hand over fist from Big Cable threatened to vote against net neutrality in committee, and others hinted at bipartisan "compromises" that would actually give the cable companies free rein to block or throttle websites.²

Thanks to targeted grassroots pressure, the Save the Internet Act got support from every single Democrat in committee without any changes from Big Cable. 

Now, with the bill headed to the floor, Verizon allies like Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon are ratcheting up their doublespeak — claiming to support net neutrality but calling the Save the Internet Act a "government takeover of the internet."³

Rep. Walden and other net neutrality opponents are sure to attack net neutrality any way they can, offering amendments that would fundamentally undermine the Save the Internet Act.