Jessica Rosenworcel: “Let's figure out how we can use those billions of dollars from the sale of public airwaves to solve a public problem.”

The covered list is a list of equipment that our Nation's National Security authorities have found to be insecure.

I want to acknowledge that the Emergency Connectivity Fund, championed by Chairman Van Hollen, has also been instrumental in closing the digital divide.

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

We need an additional $3.08 billion to fully take that equipment out securely.