"we don't need to attack NEPA. We need better road signs, better drivers, a better road."
"This is designed neglect. It is not giving the agencies the resources they need."
"Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, if you didn't want to help an issue or hurt an issue, you just engaged in benign neglect, you just don't do anything."
"That's where the E-Rate came from and so far it's been $60 billion to make sure that kids get connected."
"students with access to laptops and high-speed Internet at home score higher on tests than their classmates without those resources."
"the pandemic helped to expose the holes in the fabric of our digital infrastructure."
"the Emergency Connectivity Fund is rapidly running out of money."
"I think it's a terrifying possibility, both in the short term and in the long term, in terms of the harm to children's learning if this fund expires."
"Yes. And again we know we have a crisis in the country. One in three teenage girls contemplated suicide last year."
"Congress has made historic investments in broadband."
"Yes, the Internet has to remain a free and open space for exchange of ideas."
"There's nothing ultimately more important than democratization of access to opportunity through broadband access."