Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1359) to promote Internet access in developing countries and update foreign policy toward the Internet, and for other purposes. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 1359 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Digital Global Access Policy Act of 2019'' or the ``Digital GAP Act''. SEC. 2. PURPOSE. The purpose of this Act is to-- (1) encourage the efforts of developing countries to improve and secure mobile and fixed access to the Internet in order to catalyze innovation, spur economic growth and job creation, improve health, education, and financial services, reduce poverty and gender inequality, mitigate disasters, and promote free speech, democracy, and good governance; (2) promote build-once policies and approaches and the multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance; and (3) ensure the effective use of United States foreign assistance resources toward that end. SEC. 3. FINDINGS. Congress makes the following findings: (1) Internet access has been a driver of economic activity around the world. Bringing Internet access to the more than 4,000,000,000 people who do not have it could increase global economic output by $6,700,000,000,000 and raise 500,000,000 people out of poverty.…”