House lawmakers clash over broadband infrastructure
Source: The Hill
BY ALI BRELAND - 01/30/18 01:07 PM EST
Lawmakers expressed support across party lines for efforts to bolster broadband infrastructure during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Tuesday, however, Democrats and Republicans clashed on how to best approach this goal.
“Despite this rare consensus, Republicans on this committee have decided to unveil a series of partisan bills that don’t address the real problems,” said the committee’s top-ranking Democrat Frank Pallone (N.J.).
“They turn bipartisan agreements on their head, unnecessarily pitting urban versus rural, industry versus local governments, and broadband access versus our environment,” he continued.
The Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) explained the undergirding principle of the 25 bills as preventing the government from “picking winners and losers in the [broadband] marketplace.”
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