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On the recordMarch 17, 2009
I think back to 1935, when President Roosevelt looked across the landscape and saw that only 12 percent of the rural households had electricity.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar compares current broadband issues to historical rural electrification efforts.

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