Tony Cárdenas: “I happen to have been a small business owner at one time in a regulated industry and some of my colleagues would get…”

There's a difference between funding sent to a department so that they can get their work done versus funding in order for programs to give grants out to communities.

The suggestion that this program should be narrowed to only those who would not otherwise have broadband seems to me to ignore the reality of family budgets.

I am concerned that these rules do not take into consideration constituencies like the majority of the constituents in my district that primarily speak Spanish.

The fact remains that for far too many American households, in both Democratic and Republican districts, the monthly cost of an internet connection is not affordable enough to them.