Rep. Stearns: never mind about those previous concerns with the broadband plan, I've got some others

Rep Cliff Stearns (R-FL), one of the first lawmakers to criticize the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan, is now retreating from some of his initial comments.

He fired off a statement right after the plan's release, calling net-neutrality and reclassification of broadband service provisions "stalking horse" items that would kill off investments. But in a C-Span interview to air later this week, Rep Stearns noted that the agency didn't include those controversial items in its plan. "I have to be honest with you, there's nothing in this national broadband plan talking about that, which is good news, so I'm sort of relieved," Rep Stearns said in an interview with C-Span host Peter Slen of The Communicators'program.

Still, Stearns said he wants to know how much it cost the FCC to create the broadband plan, which was developed by executive director Blair Levin and dozens of staff members over the past several months.