We passed three bills that ultimately led to $1 trillion worth of private sector investment that created Google, eBay, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube, and the first generation and now Twitter and Facebook in the second generation, just unleashed it because we created the right policies and passed those three laws which unleashed it, created the broadband revolution and the spectrum-based revolution.
Ed Markey: “We passed three bills that ultimately led to $1 trillion worth of private sector investment that created Google, eBay…”
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Markey discusses past legislative successes that spurred significant technological advancements.
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