Boehner and Cantor to Obama: Network Neutrality regulations are harmful

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to direct the Federal Communications Commission against adopting Network Neutrality rules. They wrote that the FCC should instead focus its resources on developing the national broadband plan as mandated by Congress. Any regulations that would prohibit Internet service providers from managing their networks, they said, would discourage those companies from investing the billions of dollars needed to expand broadband access. "We believe that network neutrality regulations would actually thwart further broadband investment and availability, and that a well-reasoned broadband plan would confirm our view," the pair wrote in the letter. "So to hastily begin the process of adopting network neutrality rules months before issuing such a plan implies that politics are driving the FCC's decision-making process." Public Knowledge responded saying, "It is truly unfortunate that the House Republican leadership has put itself in the position of trying to slow down the greatest economic engine for job creativity and innovation ever created. Under the neutral, non-discriminatory Internet, thousands and thousands of new businesses were created and millions of dollars were invested."