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The jury got it right today but that won’t bring George Floyd back. The pain that this family is experiencing is unbearable, the meaning of their loss unspeakable.

They’re attacking our democracy based on a big lie. And the goal is power but it’s rooted in an old mythology that says, as you put it, that somehow, if you give other people, those people access, that somehow that takes something away…

The jury got the verdict right but that does not solve this issue.

The surest way for government to help finish the connectivity job is by deepening its partnership with private broadband innovators.

Putting government's thumb on the scale in favor of government-run networks is the wrong approach to universal connectivity.

Truly closing the digital divide means first connecting the unconnected.

It is critical that resources be directed--be refunneled directly to grass-roots, on-the-ground organizations such as community development financial institutions.

I and many hope that State leaders will now move to expand Medicaid since Senator Reverend Warnock and I secured $2 billion in incentives in the recent American Rescue Plan.

Fritz Mondale provided us all with a model for public service, and private behavior.

The goal of connecting all Americans with broadband is commendable and is rightly a bipartisan priority.

And my own personal goal is I believe we can do this by the end of this year.

We have to understand the critical nature that our nation is in with our situation, where our rural communities are not connected to the internet.

If we do not move ahead right now and put together this plan, bring the money in--we brought the experts in to tell us what to do, and what it is going to cost.

With all due respect to our President, to the infrastructure bill, that is wonderful, but that bipartisanship is vital.

My concern is if you change the definition from 25 to 100, then all of a sudden a lot of people who are already served at that 25 megabits will take precedence over people who currently have little to no service at all.

Every year that my constituents do not have internet service, they and their children are falling further behind in both economic and educational development.

I believe this is the most important hearing in our Committee in this Congress.

Broadband also provides opportunities to help us reach our climate change goals.