In Texas' Seventh Congressional District that I represent and along the Texas Gulf Coast, we are, unfortunately, all too familiar with flooding and extreme rain events and hurricanes and emergency and natural disasters.
Fletcher highlights the vulnerability of her district to natural disasters.
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some of the extraordinary steps that our officials there took to make sure that people could safely exercise their right to vote during the pandemic.
I am glad that my bill, H.R. 5058, the Broadband Incentives for Communities Act, is one of the proposals that we will discuss today.
My bill does just that: it provides grants to local governments to support their processing of applications for broadband deployment.
Thank you so much, Chairwoman Stevens, and, of course, to Chairwoman Sherrill, who just left, as well as to everyone who's here today.
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