Ajit Pai, President Trump’s hand-picked Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, completed his boss’s directive to dismantle net neutrality today.  Claiming without evidence that gutting net neutrality would spur innovation, Pai cast the deciding vote on a package of measures that remove the popular Obama-era regulations that prevented internet service providers from controlling the speeds at which content travels across their networks.

While Democrats have been united in their opposition to Pai’s plan, net neutrality hasn’t been among the top issues Republicans have been talking about for the past year.  Few have offered much more than tacit support for Trump’s plan to hand the keys to the internet over to broadband owners.  On the eve of the FCC’s vote, however, 107 GOP members of congress came out of the shadows and sent a letter (screen shot below) to Ajit Pai offering their full support for the controversial move.

TeleCom providers like Comcast and AT&T have lobbied hard against net neutrality for months, and Republicans in congress have been particularly receptive to their overtures.  Kaleigh Rogers and Jason Koebler at Vice News just revealed how receptive they have been.

They’ve documented how much in “donations” 84 of those members have received from TeleCom industry giants.  Here’s their entire list:

1. Mo Brooks, Alabama, $26,000


2. Ron Estes, Kansas, $13,807


3. Thomas Massie, Kentucky, $25,000


4. Ralph Norman, South Carolina, $15,050


5. John Moolenaar, Michigan, $25,000


6. Neal Dunn, Florida, $18,500


7. Mike Bishop, Michigan, $68,250


8. Alex Mooney, West Virginia, $17,750


9. Glenn “GT” Thompson, Pennsylvania, $70,500


10. Blaine Luetkemeyer, Missouri, $105,000


11. Paul Gosar, Arizona, $12,250


12. Richard W. Allen, Georgia, $24,250


13. Kevin Cramer, North Dakota, $168,500


14. Greg Walden, Oregon, $1,605,986


15. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee, $600,999


16. Billy Long, Missouri, $221,500


17. Gregg Harper, Mississippi, $245,200


18. Brett Guthrie, Kentucky, $398,500


19. Bill Johnson, Ohio, $196,666


20. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina, $41,830


21. Earl “Buddy” Carter, Georgia, $39,250


22. Susan Brooks, Indiana, $168,500


23. Gus Bilirakis, Florida, $234,400


24. Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma, $141,750


25. Mimi Walters, California, $161,500


26. Joe Barton, Texas, $1,262,757


27. Bill Flores, Texas, $127,500


28. Pete Olson, Texas, $220,500


29. Morgan Griffith, Virginia, $198,900


30. Tim Walberg, Michigan, $131,850


31. Fred Upton, Michigan, $1,590,125


32. Joe Wilson, South Carolina, $104,750


33. Martha McSally, Arizona, $84,936


34. Blake Farenthold, Texas, $64,250


35. Steve Womack, Arkansas, $104,750


36. Tom Marino, Pennsylvania, $130,700


37. Louie Gohmert, Texas, $85,055


38. Walter Jones, North Carolina, $72,800


39. Leonard Lance, New Jersey, $290,550


40. Steve Chabot, Ohio, $332,083


41. Bob Goodlatte, Virginia, $815,099


42. Andy Biggs, Arizona, $19,500


43. Mark Walker, North Carolina, $35,750


44. Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin, $21,200


45. Ken Buck, Colorado, $79,350


46. Larry Bucshon, Indiana, $71,750


47. Chuck Fleischmann, Tennessee, $42,00


48. David Rouzer, North Carolina, $34,300


49. Paul Mitchell, Michigan, $18,000


50. Hal Rogers, Kentucky, $360,450


51. Doug Collins, Georgia, $103,600


52. Ralph Abraham, Louisiana, $27,300


53. Mark Meadows, North Carolina, $14,500


54. Michael McCaul, Texas, $216,500


55. Jeb Hensarling, Texas, $270,198


56. Mike Simpson, Idaho, $125,200


57. Tom Emmer, Minnesota, $28,500


58. Randy Weber, Texas, $13,750


59. Rob Woodall, Georgia, $60,250


60. Ted Budd, North Carolina, $15,500


61. Ken Calvert, California, $219,212


62. Diane Black, Tennessee, $104,750


63. Virginia Foxx, North Carolina, $115,700


64. Sam Johnson, Texas, $219,785


65. James Comer, Kentucky, $22,750


66. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina, $83,250


67. Lamar Smith, Texas, $810,462


68. Steven A King, Iowa, $210,810


69. George Holding, North Carolina, $97,750


70. Rob Wittman, Virginia, $57,250


71. John Lee Ratcliffe, Texas, $53,950


72. Jason Lewis, Minnesota, $21,050


73. Jim Banks, Indiana, $16,303


74. Bill Huizenga, Michigan, $34,000


75. Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania, $202,500


76. Steven Russell, Oklahoma, $23,500


77. Adrian Smith, Nebraska, $165,834


78. Jody B Hice, Georgia, $21,000


79. Richard Hudson, North Carolina, $136,750


80. Douglas L Lamborn, Colorado, $110,543


81. Chris Collins, New York, $151,060


82. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, Washington, $673,530


83. Brad Wenstrup, Ohio, $33,750


84. Andy Barr, Kentucky, $51,100

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