02/16/2011
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"Broadband also provides opportunities to help us reach our climate change goals."
"Access to quality high-speed broadband can not only provide rural residents with options for telemedicine, for health care facilities that require access to broadband it also allows for health care fa..."
"We are here in the right place at the right time to be the leaders in Congress to finally make sure that everybody in our nation, including these 24 million in the rural communities, finally have rura..."
"24 million of our American citizens, 24 million in our rural communities have no access to the internet at a time when it is critical."