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Congress looking into White House’s role in FCC’s net neutrality regulations
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Congress looking into White House’s role in FCC’s net neutrality regulations
Congress looking into White House’s role in FCC’s net neutrality regulations
The secrecy surrounding the Obama administration's plans for regulating the Internet has prompted a congressional inquiry into whether the independent Federal Communications Commission or the White House and its allies are calling the shots over the future of the nation's broadband networks.
A top adviser to Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), defended Wheeler's decision to hide his latest draft of Internet regulations from the public until after the agency voted on them at the end of the month during a public question and answer session on Twitter held on Friday, Feb. 6. Gigi Sohn, Wheeler's special counsel for external affairs, pointed to over 4 million public comments submitted to the agency as proof of the public's support, despite the diversity of the content of those comments.
"Our proposal is based on that record," Sohn said via Twitter, claiming that the public had been provided ample input over the past year. However, the head of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform signaled to Wheeler on Friday that the committee planned to launch an investigation into the agency, pointing to a White House effort to influence the FCC to craft rules that favored a coalition of pro-net neutrality startups.
The committee's chairman, Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, requested in a letter to Wheeler that the FCC preserve all of its internal net neutrality-related documents produced since a federal court struck down its previous net neutrality rules on Jan. 14, 2014.
The FCC has until Feb. 20 to provide the committee with all net neutrality-related communications and calendar appointments between FCC employees, the White House, and other executive branch agencies since Jan. 14, 2014. Chaffetz reminded Wheeler that "the Committee has the authority to investigate "any matter" at "any time."
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+1 MT: @AjitPaiFCC: Here's POTUS's 332-page plan to regulate the Internet. I wish the public could see what's inside. pic.twitter.com/6i7j2tYZYL — Fred Upton (@RepFredUpton) February 6, 2015 From the Daily Caller: Republican FCC Commissioner...
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(CNSNews.com) – Kevin O’Reilly, a member of the White House National Security Staff who regularly communicated about Operation Fast and Furious with the Arizona-based ATF agent responsible for running the operation that allowed guns to flow...
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Wall Street Journal: The FCC's Threat to Internet Freedom 'Net neutrality' sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. By ROBERT M....
- Opening The Barn Door
Newsmax: Obama Plans Internet Grab: FCC to Embrace 'Net Neutrality' Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:16 PM By: John O. Edwards Since the Internet took root as a mass communications phenomenon in the mid 1990s, a quiet war has raged in Washington...