While the presidential candidates are out in Iowa passionately debating precisely which parts of the Bush tax cuts they will repeal, back in Washington some observers consider it an oddly hypothetical exercise.
Had Collins, Lisa Murkowski, or John McCain voted the other way on the "skinny repeal," back in July, the legislation would have proceeded to a House-Senate conference, where it would probably have been broadened and passed.
A petition for the law's repeal, backed by a range of activist groups, has around a third of those signatories.
Voting for disclosure, a spokesman said, would have sent the repeal measure back to committee.
Earlier this week, John McCain, who helped to torpedo the previous G.O.P. repeal effort, back in July, indicated that he might support the Cassidy-Graham bill.
The repeal rolls back Obama-era regulations that classified the internet as a public utility and required internet service providers to treat all of the data traveling on their networks equally.
The repeal rolls back so-called "Title II" regulations that classified the internet as a public utility, and which, among other things, required internet service providers, or ISPs, to treat all of the data traveling on their networks equally.
The FCC's repeal rolled back so-called "Title II" regulations that classified the internet as a public utility and which, among other things, required internet service providers (ISPs) to treat all of the data traveling on their networks equally.
Efforts to repeal it, backed by 78 Nobel laureates, have failed.
Joe Duckworth, the chief executive of the League Against Cruel Sports, said the new move was "nothing but an attempt at repeal by the back door, as the pro-hunt lobby know they can't get a majority to repeal the Act overall".
Hopeful of picking up substantial numbers of seats in the Congressional elections, they are developing plans to try to repeal or roll back President Obama's new health care law.
