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    <item congress="117" measure-type="s" measure-number="2965" measure-id="id117s2965" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2021-10-07" update-date="2022-02-23">
        <title>A bill to require the Federal Communications Commission to study the current and projected demands on rural broadband networks associated with data transmission due to increased network usage.</title>
        <summary summary-id="id117s2965v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2022-02-23">
            <action-date>2021-10-07</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p>This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to analyze current and projected demands for data transmission on rural broadband networks and publish a report of its findings. The analysis must include, for example, estimates of the quantity of data transmitted and certain unrecovered costs to rural broadband providers associated with those transmissions.</p>]]></summary-text>
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