Leonard Lance: “This is the way Congress should work, in a completely bipartisan fashion.”

This unacceptable practice leaves counties and localities on the hook for maintaining and upgrading their systems, and this of course endangers public safety.

The AIRWAVES Act includes a rural dividend, setting aside 10 percent of proceeds from future spectrum auctions to deploy wireless in unserved and underserved, often rural areas.

But for the richest most powerful nation on earth, we can and should do better.

I opposed the original legislation in New Jersey because it opened the door to the diversion as we are seeing today.