It was not immediately clear what prompted the room to be evacuated. Images on a live video feed of the meeting in Washington showed law enforcement officers in the room with dogs.
(Reporting by Chris Sanders and David Shepardson; Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Andrew Hay)FCC meeting briefly evacuated ahead of net neutrality vote
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