House Energy and Commerce Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., is conspicuously absent from the list of co-sponsors of new legislation designed to ensure that major telecommunications and cable providers never block or degrade content traversing their high-speed Internet networks.The measure was introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a senior Energy and Commerce Committee member who served as subcommittee chairman last year, and Communications Subcommittee member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., just before the House began its summer recess Friday evening.
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