Boost FCC, USDA, HUD Broadband Collaboration: Democrats
Brian Schatz of Hawaii led a letter Thursday with 20 other Senate Democrats urging the departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development to “share data” with the FCC on programs to improve broadband connectivity and “collaborate with each other…
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to better promote" Lifeline. HUD and USDA should “use their resources to help promote the Lifeline program through existing outreach to public housing agencies and schools,” the lawmakers wrote HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “HUD, USDA and the FCC should also collaborate on what additional information they could share with each other to make enrollment in the Lifeline program easier.” Others signing included Communications Subcommittee Chairman Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., earlier this week wrote Rosenworcel to again raise concerns about FCC plans to improve broadband coverage map accuracy. He cited a Competitive Carriers Association study that found “pervasive errors” on Rural Digital Opportunity Fund data (see 2105060072).