[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4497]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1183. Mr. WELCH (for himself and Mr. Marshall) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1092 submitted by 
Mrs. Murray (for herself and Ms. Collins) and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4366, making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        On page 147, beginning on line 9, strike ``90 percent'' 
     and all that follows through line 19 and insert ``75 percent 
     of the households to be served by a project receiving a loan 
     or grant under the pilot program shall be in a rural area 
     without sufficient access to broadband: Provided further, 
     That for purposes of such pilot program, a rural area without 
     sufficient access to broadband shall be defined as 100 
     megabits per second downstream and 20 megabits per second 
     upstream: Provided further, That to the extent possible, 
     projects receiving funds provided under the pilot program 
     must build out service to at least 100 megabits per second 
     downstream and 100''.
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