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"Nobody has a 'right' to the broadband, but it would be nice if everybody did have it."
-- Rep Mike Conaway (R-TX)

Reps Mac Thornberry (R-TX), Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), and Mike Conaway (R-TX) railed on the Federal Communications Commission's newly released National Broadband Plan.

Computer and Internet companies spent well over $120 million last year on federal lobbying efforts.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution, Blair Levin -- the executive director of the Federal Communications Commission's Omnibus Broadband Initiative -- seemed confident many of the crucial recommendations in the agency's National Broadband Plan would eventually become realities.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday stressed the Federal Communications Commission's new report on broadband expansion could help spur "millions of new jobs."

A new report from the Government Accountability Office casts doubt on the effectiveness of the federal government's online spending portal, USAspending.gov.

Rep Edward Markey (D-MA) on Monday praised the Federal Communications Commission's forthcoming broadband report as a "visionary, far-reaching plan."

Sens Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) took the cue from the FCC's limited release of its National Broadband Plan to introduce their own legislation to make broadband data more transparent for consumers.

A look at the growth of e-commerce sites in the U.S. over the past decade.

Rep Cliff Stearns (R-FL), the ranking Republican on the House Communications Subcommittee, has sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski saying he hopes the National Broadband Plan will not be "littered with hidden agendas" to pave the way for network neutrality, Title II reclassification and spectrum auction conditions.