On April 26 The House Committee on Energy and Commerce rejected a bid to include strong network neutrality protections in a telecommunications reform bill that is slated for a vote in the House in May.

The SaveTheInternet.com Coalition, which includes a diverse coalition of content providers such as Google, Amazon, eBay and Microsoft, plus nonprofit organizations, free speech groups and consumer advocates vowed to continue fighting for stronger protections.

Meta-note: from this PC Magazine article you can find out that the sponsor of the original bill is a Republican, and the person who tried to push through the unsuccessful amendment to it is a Democrat, but the article itself does not construe this as a partisan battle.

However, on the Google news roundup, several headlines do imply strong partisanship: "US Democrats bid to write "net neutrality" into law fails" (Xinhua, China); "US Democrats fail to win Internet neutrality" (Inquirer, UK); "Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality" (ZDNet and CNET News.com).

No, I don't know what it means. I just thought it was interesting.