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The House Oversight Committee cancels hearing on net neutrality rules after the FCC chief declines to testify.

Chaffetz wants the FCC chief to do some explaining on net neutrality rules.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee had a hearing scheduled today on whether pressure from the White House improperly influenced Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler to offer up net neutrality rules that, like President Obama's, come fairly close to European thinking on the matter. The hearing was postponed, however, when Wheeler made a last-minute decision not to testify.

New Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), out to prove he's the measure of previous chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) when it comes to issuing press releases, issued a joint statement with Energy Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) questioning Wheeler's motives.

“As Chairman Wheeler pushes forward with plans to regulate the Internet, he still refuses to directly answer growing concerns about how the rules were developed, how they are structured, and how they will stand up to judicial scrutiny,” said the statement. “The last time a rule of this magnitude was voted on by the FCC, then-Senator Obama was motivated to call for transparency at the commission. We continue that call today.”

In an op-ed piece on Wired.com February 4, Wheeler announced plans for net neutrality regulations that would ban paid prioritization and provide incentives for broadband users to build competitive networks. A story published that same day in the Wall Street Journal reported that senior White House Officials had held dozens of secret meetings with online activists and “traditional telecommunications companies” to build a case for net neutrality.

That fueled Chaffetz's suspicions that Wheeler, a former telecom industry lobbyist, might have been involved. He and Senate Homeland Security chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) subsequently sent letters to Wheeler requesting visitor logs and emails.

Those were to be furnished this week, but they, like Wheeler, never materialized.

Business Breaking News: Lighten Up: Negativity at Work is Bad for Your Career

Even though you may be helping your employer by regularly pointing out problems in the workplace, you are hurting your own performance by doing so, new research shows.

Employees who focus on the negative aspects of work are more likely to become mentally fatigued and defensive, and experience a drop-off in production, according to a Michigan State University study.

"The moral of this story is not that we want people to stop raising concerns within the company, because that can be extremely beneficial," Russell Johnson, a Michigan State management professor who co-authored the study, said in a statement. "But constantly focusing on the negative can have a detrimental effect on the individual."

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