We do not have the market to drive the market forces out. That is where we are just dead in the water.
And you want a war on poverty, you let us--you know, we get the people connected, they have got a chance to survive.
Another critical component of the Universal Service Program will be the Remote Areas Fund.
I think that Senator Capito and I both--and she has worked so hard on this--but both of us understand being around our S...
I hope that you would look at the topography of our State too. It is not Kansas.
The universal service mandate means that Americans living in even the most rural and remote areas of the Nation must hav...
the reduction hits them very, very hard.
I am confused a little bit as to why the President's Budget for 2018 proposed $134 million in payments to the United Min...
I would hope you would look at that, sir, before you all make that step because these communities that gave so much to t...
If you will work with us on that and make sure that our miners do not get shortchanged, I would be very appreciative.
Do people just defy the accuracy or the logic of this that do not want anything touched in these areas, and these are pr...
I think the more transparent that you can be, the better.
now is the time to close the digital divide.
Repeatedly placing corporate interests above the interests of consumers and hardworking Americans is unacceptable.
Americans should not have to worry that their personal information will be used or shared by their Internet providers wi...
Broadband access can provide West Virginians with opportunities that lead to new jobs, higher wages, and providing that ...
The Gigabit Opportunity, or GO Act, encourages new investment to connect these rural and urban communities.
We cannot afford to leave rural America behind and we are very concerned about this.