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Peter Welch: “Rural America is getting left behind. So this is really a plea to our committee, Madam Chair, for all of us to start…”

On the recordJune 20, 2017
Rural America is getting left behind. So this is really a plea to our committee, Madam Chair, for all of us to start having markups and doing the tough work of having legislation that can actually concretely move us ahead.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch urges the committee to take action on rural broadband legislation.

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