Wheeler, Pai, O'Rielly Agree FCC Not Slowing Down After Net Neutality Ruling

court victory. Responding to a reporter's question, Wheeler denied the agency was slowing down or backing off on its plans for big-ticket items such as broadband privacy, special access, cable set-top boxes and media ownership. But he wouldn't say whether particular items would come before or after the November election, other than a media ownership proposal that he said will come this month: "We will move them as they become ripe. We just extended the privacy reply comment period, and I'm not going to say it is going to have to be done by the second Tuesday in November or by Thanksgiving or whatever the case may be." Asked a similar question, O'Rielly and Pai said they didn't see any evidence of an FCC slowdown or shift, other than a possible compromise on cable boxes. "It does take time for those items to materialize," O'Rielly said. "I'm fully anticipating those issues we talked about are coming; it's just a matter of when. I believe privacy is going to happen before the election." Pai also said the "ideological views" of Democratic FCC majority remain strong and he expects it's moving ahead on the major items. Neither Republican was willing to predict the ultimate outcome of the net neutrality litigation, but Pai said he expects critics of the order to appeal. O'Rielly suggested supporters of the net neutrality and broadband reclassification order could "be a little more magnanimous in their approach, rather than cheerleading and running around celebrating." He said the court didn't say it agreed with what the FCC did, just that it was deferring to its decision-making under Chevron deference. Opening the news conference, Wheeler thanked and lauded fellow Democratic Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn, plus FCC staff, for putting together the net neutrality order, and the agency's attorneys for defending it in court.