FCC Chairman Denies Taking Orders from Obama on Net Neutrality

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on Tuesday used a House hearing to repeatedly deny Republican accusations that the FCC reversed course on its plan for implementing net neutrality only at the insistence of the White House and President Obama. “You have asked whether there were secret instructions from the White House. The answer is, ‘No,’” Wheeler told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Instead he said the FCC made its decision based on the public record.