Tim Ryan: “Let me share a statistic that is Americans' ranking with broadband penetration as of January of 2005. Korea has almost a…”

“Let me share a statistic that is Americans' ranking with broadband penetration as of January of 2005. Korea has almost a 25 percent penetration; China, 20 percent; Iceland, 15 percent; the U.S., 11 percent. This is one area where we are falling behind in a big way. Another area that you touched upon, this is the number of engineers, people with engineering degrees this year: China, 600,000; India, 350,000; U.S., 70,000. We cannot compete in a brutal, brutal global economy if we are not making the kinds of investments that are going to increase this number. Now, I understand that the Chinese and India, they have more people than we do, all the more reason that we need every single citizen in our country on the field with the opportunity to play and to help make investments in the United States and create wealth in the United States. That is what this Innovation Agenda does, broadband penetration, next 5 years in every household as Mr. Meek said, increasing the number of engineers and scientists by 100,000 in the next 4 years. That is in the Democratic Innovation Agenda, and let me just share with who assisted the Leader Pelosi and the Democratic Caucus with putting this together.…”