Congressional Republicans are accusing the White House of having "an improper influence" over the Federal Communications Commission's decision on net neutrality, and are launching an investigation.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler today demanding documentation of all communication between FCC personnel and the White House, as well as calendar appointments, visitor logs, and meeting minutes related to meetings with the White House, and all internal documents discussing the views and recommendations of the White House.

"Reports indicate that the views expressed by the White House potentially had an improper influence on the development of the draft Open Internet Order circulated internally at the Commission on February 5, 2015," the letter from committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said. "Specifically, there are questions regarding the FCC's decision to promote the reclassification of broadband services under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934."

The committee's document request had several other components, including "all documents in the possession of FCC personnel working in the Office of Chairman Wheeler and the Office of General Counsel."

President Obama in November called upon the FCC to reclassify broadband Internet access as a common carrier service, and to impose net neutrality rules that prevent Internet providers from interfering with Web traffic. Despite making his opinion known, Obama said at the time that the FCC is an independent agency and can do as it wishes.

This week, Wheeler issued his proposal to reclassify broadband as Obama suggested.

Chaffetz has some big donors from the technology industry. Comcast, a staunch opponent of Title II classification, accounted for $15,100 in donations in the most recent election cycle through the company's political action committee and employees, according to OpenSecrets.org. An even bigger donor for Chaffetz was Google, which gave $21,000. Google told the FCC that Title II could provide some advantages to its Google Fiber service, yet Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt also urged White House officials to avoid Title II reclassification, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Chaffetz asked Wheeler to make staff available for a briefing and provide all documents by February 20. He reminded Wheeler that the committee "has authority to investigate 'any matter' at 'any time.'"