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Thursday, June 21

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Connecting Rural America

By Brad

At The Hill, Brendan Sasso reports on some positive news in the ongoing — and often stalled — effort to connect rural communities to broadband:

The Senate unanimously added an amendment to the farm bill on Wednesday that would require that a portion of federal grants be used to expand high-speed Internet access to under-served areas.

The Senate’s farm bill would double funding for the Agriculture Department’s rural Internet programs — from $25 million to $50 million.

The amendment came courtesy of Sen. Mark Warner.

Tags: rural, broadband access, senate

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