Sam Graves: “EPA and Corps are proposing to expand the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act to include nearly every damp patch of land…”

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I helped create two programs, Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhood Access and Equity, to begin redressing some of these harms.

We are grateful to Congressman Nehls (R-TX), along with Chairmen Sam Graves (R-MO) and Garret Graves (R-LA), for their leadership on this issue.

I am very proud to sponsor H.R. 1752, the Eliminating Barriers to Rural Internet Development Grant Eligibility Act, or the E-BRIDGE Act. Unfortunately, too many of our communities, particularly in rural Missouri, still lack broadband…