The greatest influence that can reintroduce net neutrality across the United States would be that of the House of Congress, but the amount of effort to convince either the house of representatives or the senate that reinstating net neutrality is a huge hurdle considering the small amount of interest. With the lack of concern towards net neutrality outside of interest groups, there wouldn’t be enough votes needed to pass through both the House and the Senate.

Above is the process of how a bill is passed through congress, having to go through both the House of Representatives and the Senate before having the president signing it to law, with the respected committees reviewing the bill before it reaches either floor. The long and arduous task of passing a bill through both the house and senate is the key reason to why the Save the Internet Act of 2019 is having a difficult time going through congress. (https://www.vox.com/2019/4/10/18302186/net-neutrality-house-bill-senate) The Save the Internet Act of 2019 is the bill circulating through congress that will reinstate net neutrality as a law Though it did pass through the House, the Senate will not agree to pass due to its majority, that being the Republican party, being against the idea of reinstating net neutrality. This doesn’t even account for the ability to filibuster in the senate, which would drag the issue to a longer period of time while in periods of disagreements . ” …a senator who launches a filibuster virtually hijacks the floor of the chamber by speaking for long periods of time, thus preventing the Senate from closing debate and acting on a bill. “(American Government 2e Chapter 11.5) As filibustering continues to occur in the senate, the more unlikely the bill will reach the senate before the next presidency, making it be in a limbo state. And if the senate rejects the bill, without the two sides of congress agreeing to pass the bill, it won’t go into effect and will die, ruining the chances of bringing back net neutrality through congress.

In our group’s concept map, we discuss some of the particular interest groups, the most prominent towards this topic would be the broadband companies in favor of abolishing net neutrality.”…companies like Verizon and AT&T will lobby Congress for laws beneficial to their businesses…” (American Government 2e Chapter 10.3) Broadband companies are lobbying to keep the removal of net neutrality, and those against it would need to be under the Democratic party due to the party divide that the Democrats and Republicans have.This is evident in the previous article talking about how the Save the Internet Act of 2019 was passed in the House, but will be prevented to pass through the Senate. With a majority of the Senate being Republican and the majority of the House being Democrat, the political divide is another key reason to why net neutrality will not pass. The divide in congress is solely caused by the influence of the broadband companies, as they continue to lobby the republican senate to continue to control the speed of the internet as they please.

With the House of Congress being able to make laws, they would have the greatest influence into implementing net neutrality, the only downside would be the long process in approving a law, having to be accepted in both the House and Senate, and the lobbyists against net neutrality funding the political party of the majority of the Senate and the president himself, which in turn means that they’re more likely to reject the reinstitution of net neutrality.