opening statement
We can solve this.
A number of us in the Senate are very concerned that there may be a rescinding or elimination of the E-Rate program and ...
I think the investment that we are talking about is really critical in any number of areas.
Now, I am still evaluating the plan, but Commissioner, do you agree that direct spending is necessary to eliminate the D...
I want to perhaps just say that we should commit to each other to continue this discussion and really drilldown on this ...
If the private sector cannot, for some reason, get to everywhere it needs to get, then the issue of whether municipaliti...
I will often have one conversation with providers and industry about the levels of connectivity and then I am out.
Part of what we are dealing with here... is that there does seem to be this ongoing different understanding of the level...
I think the time has come to treat this like the utility that it really is and address it that way.
the importance of being able to do that in a way and at a time that makes sense, given people's busy lives, is really in...
the capacity to do telemedicine is increasingly important, as it is for people who live far away from providers.
If there is not good access to broadband, to connectivity... it is really a nonstarter for those folks.
Well, and it may be that as we further these conversations that Congress has to get involved, too, in identifying where ...
Preparation is key.
For people in our state, a lack of affordable access to broadband continues to be a real and serious challenge.
we would like so many people in our rural areas to be able to access medicine through a tele-connection.
I think it is critically important purely for that perspective.
