But she said the cable box proposal needed to be revised to comply with copyright and licensing laws that would not give the F.C.C. outsize power.
To have passed, the proposal needed enough yes votes to equal 15percentt of Hartford's registered voters: 6,731 people, according to the city registrar of voters.
The proposal needed the support of at least two-thirds of state lawmakers, which would allow the new university to access the Permanent University Fund, a major source of revenue that only certain institutions can tap.
"First, the changes to the proposal needed to correctly implement the Volcker Rule mandate and to avoid serious harm to our financial markets are so extensive that reproposal will be required as a matter of administrative law".
But he, too, warned that the proposal needed more oversight, as well as provisions to help homeowners and distressed communities, to ensure that it was not a "blank check to Washington".
Jason Hirschhorn, a former president of MySpace and a former executive at MTV Networks, said more questions about the proposal needed to be answered, since the exceptions for new services could be interpreted as "just another way of going against net neutrality".
