Again, I want to highlight where words did not match deeds. The candidate President George W. Bush said before the election that we would have ``universal, affordable access to broadband technology by the year 2007.'' Well, the Bush administration has had no national policy to develop a universal broadband access even though building a robust, nationwide network would expand employment by 1.2 million new permanent jobs in our country. This is the House Democrats' innovation agenda, which is available on HouseDemocrats.gov. We have a plan laid out how, which includes how we would get to universal broadband access within 5 years, and that we would make sure that we grow the math and science and engineers that we need in this country and make sure that we can match our rhetoric with action. ____________________
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Again, I want to highlight where words did not match deeds. The candidate President George W. Bush said before the…”
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