Thursday morning Senator Susan Collins wrote a strong letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to delay today’s vote to repeal net neutrality protections, becoming the first Republican Senator to directly urge him to postpone the vote.

Repealing the 2015 net neutrality protections “would cause immediate harm to the innovation economy,” she and fellow Maine Senator Angus King (an Independent who votes with Democrats) wrote. “Access fees, fast lanes, and preferential treatment of content would undermine the openness of the internet and disproportionately hurt startups’ and small businesses’ ability to compete with entrenched incumbents.”