Wyden Urges 'Big, Bold' Broadband Action in 2021
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden of Oregon told acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Tuesday he’s “committed to working with you and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to ensure that investments in broadband are at the center…
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of any comprehensive infrastructure bill.” Wyden and other Senate Democratic caucus members filed legislation last week to allocate $6 billion more to the FCC emergency broadband benefit program (see 2103110060 plus the earlier HR-1783 and HR-1848). Wyden called for “our country to state unequivocally that it is an American priority to make broadband in 2021 what electricity became eighty years ago: an essential service on which every household could count.” He wants “big, bold, timely action on broadband, patterned on the success of” the 1936 Rural Electrification Act, said his letter to Rosenworcel.