Tim Ryan: “We are in the process, I think everyone would agree, of creating a new economy. No one really knows what direction it is…”

“We are in the process, I think everyone would agree, of creating a new economy. No one really knows what direction it is going to go in; but we know some of the fundamentals, like broadband, are a very important part of that. So why not make it accessible to everybody, just like we did with roads? That was a huge subsidy for the auto industry for years. I mean, where is the auto industry, where are the car manufacturers without roads? Where are the great railroad companies without the railroad lines? These are the kinds of things that I think we need to do. Water lines, sewer lines were the key in the industrial age; and in the high- tech Information Age, that is the road and the bridge.”