Wheeler Tells Hill Republicans He Has No Plans to Release Net Neutrality Order to the Public Early
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler shot down congressional Republicans’ request that he release the net neutrality order Thursday, the day he plans to circulate it. “What you have suggested in terms of releasing the preliminary discussion draft of the Order runs…
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contrary to Commission procedure followed over the years by both Democratic and Republican Chairs,” Wheeler said in a Monday letter to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., House Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore. “If decades of precedent are to be changed, then there must be an opportunity for thoughtful review in the lead up to any change.” He rebuffed their accusations that the agency has not been transparent, pointing to roundtables, comments and ex parte filings recounting meetings. “The Commission's Open Internet proceeding has been one of the most transparent and inclusive proceedings in recent memory,” Wheeler said. “We have received more than four million comments -- a record for any Commission proceeding -- on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released last spring.”