As this committee works to address the digital divide, we must ensure that our local governments are prepared to take advantage of these efforts and these funds.

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.

So we appreciate Congresswoman Fletcher's bill and efforts to make sure there's resources to process those applications.

this bill really has emerged from a collaboration process that we have here in Houston.

We have to pass voting rights legislation in the congress. And I`m proud that the House just went back in august and passed HR-4 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

These politicians, the ones who were surrounding Governor Abbott today, are trying to use this law to isolate women who are seeking abortions by targeting their support network, discouraging their loved ones and others for helping them for…

His actions and his priorities say otherwise.

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.

what may seem facially neutral is, in fact, discriminatory and will have a disproportionate impact on people in the communities that we all represent.

It is important for my constituents and for people across the country to know that the Commission's ratemaking policies properly compensate and incentivize emissions reduction investments.

Security of these systems is of paramount importance.