last week the Department of Education released new data demonstrating that students with access to laptops and high-speed Internet at home score higher on tests.

the pandemic helped to expose the holes in the fabric of our digital infrastructure.

17 million kids got access as a result of that provision.

The Internet has to remain a free and open space for exchange of ideas. Non-discrimination is the bedrock to that.

I think it's a terrifying possibility, both in the short term and in the long term, in terms of the harm to children's learning if this fund expires.

There's nothing ultimately more important than democratization of access to opportunity through broadband access.

Congress has made historic investments in broadband.

the pandemic helped to expose the holes in the fabric of our digital infrastructure.

that's why I fought so hard to create the Emergency Connectivity Fund.

last week the Department of Education released new data demonstrating that students with access to laptops and high-speed Internet at home score higher on tests.

17 million kids got access as a result of that provision.

Yes. And again we know we have a crisis in the country. One in three teenage girls contemplated suicide last year.

I don't think that it serves us to be starving people abroad. I think that it helps Americans for us to be feeding people all over the world.

Yes. And again we know we have a crisis in the country. One in three teenage girls contemplated suicide last year.

Studies estimate that tariffs are expected to raise canned food prices by 19 to 30 percent.

Any farm bill that hurts vulnerable people, I think we all should understand, is going nowhere.

the pandemic helped to expose the holes in the fabric of our digital infrastructure.

We should be revisiting our policies that push people out of their home countries when they want to stay at home.