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March 2021

Sponsor 

House Commerce Committee

Date 
Mon, 03/22/2021 - 11:00

A hearing on the critical need to invest in our nation’s infrastructure and on the Leading Infrastructure For Tomorrow’s America Act, or the LIFT America Act

 


Sponsor 

Senate Broadband Caucus

Date 
Tue, 03/16/2021 - 16:00 to 17:15

Hosted by U.S. Senators:
*Senators will provide opening and closing remarks

  • John Boozman (R-Ark.)
  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
  • Angus King (I-Maine)
  • Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

Keynote Remarks from:

  • Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, Federal Communications Commission

Panel Discussion with:


Next infrastructure bill aims to end ‘digital divide’

Democratic lawmakers are beginning to focus on the next big-ticket item on their legislative agenda, a massive infrastructure package, and the broadband money they plan to include in it.

Colorado aims to use pandemic to expand funding for broadband access

Colorado and federal lawmakers want to put big money into more efforts to expand high-speed internet access. In Colorado, about 90,000 rural residents and 65,000 students across the state do not have access or adequate access, according to a recent Colorado Broadband Office 

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