S.Amdt. 4201

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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