 block access to particular content and applications, he would not oppose allowing networks to charge content and applications providers for dif- ferent tiers of service (National Journal's Insider Update 2006). The continuing controversy ultimately became front-page news in The Wall Street Journal (2005b), which predicted that the issue would be of major concern when Congress began its consideration of proposals to overhaul the communications laws. A number of national media outlets published editorials and opinion pieces on both sides of the issue. 23 Network neutrality emerged as one of the hottest issues in communications policy and became the most controversial issue in Congress's consideration of major telecommunications reform legislation in 2006. On the House side, pro- posed legislation with strong bipartisan support that included a network neutrality provision unraveled, and House Republicans, with the support of a small group of House Democrats, began to push forward a bill that did not contain a network neutrality provision. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet voted 8-23 and the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 22-34 to reject amendments that would have added a broad network neutrality man- date to the bill. After House Speaker Dennis Hastert denied the House Judiciary Committee's request for concurrent jurisdiction over the legislation, the House Judiciary Committee favorably reported on a different measure that would have incorporated network neutrality into the federal antitrust laws, only to attempt to offer that bill as an amendment blocked by the House Rules Committee. When the full House debated the version of the legislation reported by the House Commerce Committee on June 8, it rejected a network neutrality amendment offered by Rep. Edward Markey by a vote of 152-269 before approving the entire bill by a vote of 321-101. Network neutrality proved even more controversial on the Senate side. The Sen- ate Commerce Committee conducted hearings on network neutral