Marc Veasey actually said...

"30 percent of Latinos do not have access to broadband of any kind and when you talk about the non-English-speaking groups, that number even goes higher."

"I think that we need to address now before we start any large expansive movement of that is when those contracting opportunities take place to help build out that broadband, that black-owned, woman-ow..."

"I think it is very important that we expand our broadband."

"I hope this hearing is the first of many actions we as a committee take, and a key priority of mine, supporting economic opportunity across rural America and Indian country."