Amy Klobuchar: “I think back to 1935, when President Roosevelt looked across the…”

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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Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar compares current broadband issues to historical rural electrification efforts.

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