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GOP House members urge funding of FCC’s new broadband data collection method

June 10, 2020

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A day after the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to use inaccurate data to distribute $16 billion in broadband expansion funding, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee urged their colleagues to give the FCC the funding to improve its data collection process.

Thirteen members, led by Greg Walden of Oregon and Bob Latta of Ohio, signed a letter on Wednesday imploring their colleagues in the Democratic majority to fully fund the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability — or Broadband DATA Act.

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