[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7660]
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  SA 4201. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING PRIORITIZATION OF 
                   BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT FUNDING FOR UNSERVED 
                   AREAS.

        It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) deploying high-speed broadband service in rural areas 
     of the United States is one of the highest infrastructure 
     priorities; and
       (2) any funds spent to deploy broadband service across the 
     United States must first address building out broadband 
     infrastructure in unserved areas, which are areas where no 
     household has access to fixed, terrestrial broadband service 
     that is consistently delivered with a speed of not less than 
     25 megabits per second for downloads and 3 megabits per 
     second for uploads.
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