The U.S. House Ag committee has advanced a bipartisan bill to increase rural broadband services. Chairman David Scott says bipartisanship is the key to the $50 billion Broadband Internet Connections for Rural America Act, “Everybody understands we’ve got to do this. I want to do it quickly and get it done.”
Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler praised the bill saying it will help rural Missourians, “According to the Missouri Department of Economic Development it’s estimated 300,000 Missouri households cannot access the internet.
