Still, there's a nagging worry among more moderate groups as well that what has made the Waxman-Markey bill politically passable may have rendered it all but toothless.
The House of Representatives has passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, otherwise known as the Waxman-Markey bill.
As for energy, the Senate legislation bears little resemblance to the cap-and-trade bill steered through the House last year by Henry Waxman and Edward Markey.
曾在去年幫助奧巴馬成功競選總統的遊說團體就一直在支持和推進網絡中立主義的合法化和規範化進程,他們對Waxman的看法表達了讚許之意。
"In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology was not right, it was not working," asked Waxman.