John Kerry

I took the fact that there were 40 co-sponsors to the bill and Kerry, Chair of the Commerce committee's subcommittee that oversees the internet and Rockefeller, the chair of the Commerce committee itself were not among them as a signal that they had problems with the bill. The reason is that there was clearly an aggressive effort to get co-sponsors and either of them would have been major "gets".

I would have expected them to have been among the people with amendments to fix the problems. They have the staff and the knowledge that most lack.

I tried to find if Kerry had said anything using various googles. Other than sites saying he had not said anything, I did find one December interview (from Europe) where Cam Kerry was asked - apparently he was part of the administration team on this. In the interview, he essentially said he would not state what there position was as there was no official position. Now, obviously brothers can disagree and the fact that Cam was part of the administration team does not even mean that he sided against it.

I do think it silly that the Republicans removing their names as cosponsors are considered more against it than people who never signed on and are saying nothing.

That said I really which that Kerry would have put out an opinion - even if it were complicated.