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Derrick Van Orden Speaks in Agriculture Committee on Rural Broadband

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Derrick Van Orden | Official U.S. House headshot

Derrick Van Orden | Official U.S. House headshot

WASHINGTON, DC – In case you missed it, yesterday Rep. Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) spoke in an Agriculture Committee highlighting the digital divide in rural America. 

The University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that just 63 percent of households in rural Wisconsin counties have broadband access.

As Van Orden noted, “We’ve spent $351 billion [on broadband in] the last five years, and I can’t do precision agriculture going from Crawford to Grant County, where [my constituents in attendance at the hearing] are from. This is a systemic failure of this system.”

Watch the clip on YouTube here.

Issues: Agriculture Infrastructure

Original source can be found here.

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