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House vote: H.R. 3101 // July 26, 2010Needed two-thirds to pass

Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010

Sponsor: Edward Markey (D-MA)

Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 - (Sec. 2) States that no person shall be liable for a violation of this Act with respect to video programming, online content, applications, services, advanced communications services, or equipment used to provide or access advanced communications services to the extent such person: (1) transmits, routes, or stores in intermediate or transient storage the communications made available through the provision of advanced communications services by a third party; or (2) provides an information location tool through which an end user obtains access to such video programming, online content, applications, services, advanced communications services, or equipment used to provide or access advanced communications services. Makes such limitation on liability inapplicable to any person to the extent such person relies on third party applications, services, software, hardware, or equipment to comply with the requirements of this Act.

Science, Technology, Communications Topic assigned by the Congressional Research Service.

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them

Won the vote · Yea

348 votes, representing 187,875,284 people80.1%of U.S. adults

Lost the vote · Nay

23 votes, representing 13,189,584 people5.6%of U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 14.3% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the House
SideOutcomeVotesShare of U.S. adults
YeaWon34880.1%
NayLost235.6%
Not represented on this questionNo position taken014.3%