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Roger Wicker: “Any direct infrastructure spending Congress approves should be targeted exclusively to the few remaining census tracts…”

On the recordJune 19, 2017
Any direct infrastructure spending Congress approves should be targeted exclusively to the few remaining census tracts, mostly rural and tribal, where there is currently no competitive broadband service.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker emphasizes targeting infrastructure spending to underserved areas for broadband service.

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