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Brian Schatz: “Expanding Lifeline subsidies to broadband simply recognizes the reality of how people communicate today.”

On the recordJune 1, 2015
Expanding Lifeline subsidies to broadband simply recognizes the reality of how people communicate today.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Schatz advocates for expanding Lifeline to include broadband services.

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