Jessica Rosenworcel: “Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today, and for providing full funding for the FCC in your fiscal year…”

I want to emphasize how much we do need that authority back.

I have developed something called the Broadband Funding Map using $10 million in direct appropriations set aside in the IIJA.

I think that if we choose to take this equipment out of our networks and fully fund its replacement costs, we have to go tell everyone around the world that we chose to do that.

I signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Commerce because they have a lot of programs like BEAD.