Representative Cliff Stearns of Florida, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Communications, Technology and The Internet Subcommittee, and Representative Anna Eshoo of California, raised their voices today against expenditure of the $7.2 billion appropriated for extension of broadband networks into unserved and underdserved areas until after completion of a national broadband inventory map now being prepared by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the Commerce Department.
Now that Congress is committed to spending this money, it seems government officials just can't resist throwing up bottlenecks to actually sending checks out the door to contractors who need and want to do the work.
Now that Congress is committed to spending this money, it seems government officials just can't resist throwing up bottlenecks to actually sending checks out the door to contractors who need and want to do the work.
