Rejection of a Network-Neutrality Measure

It’s been a bad day for higher-education groups and other advocates of legislation to prohibit telephone and cable companies from favoring some Web sites over others. The Senate Commerce Committee defeated a network-neutrality amendment to a pending bill, the Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, S 2686. The panel’s tie vote, 11 to 11, meant that the amendment failed. For background on the issue, see a recent Chronicle article.—Andrea L. Foster