I recently led the majority of my Republican colleagues on this committee requesting NTIA remove these unnecessary requirements from the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program or the BEAD Program.
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The only way you can obviously get this done is to nuke the legislative filibuster, and that is not something that we have anywhere close to the votes to do.
I don’t think there ought to be any financial incentives or any financial relief given to Iran absent their commitment to end their nuclear program.
Again, the question is $60 billion worth the risk of putting something like that on the floor, and all the other harm that could potentially come from that.
Our colleagues on the Armed Services Committee have put forward a strong bill — a strong bill for our national security and for the men and women who defend our nation.
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