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Article: Stevens Leverages GAO Broadband Report.

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May 8, 2006
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Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) late last week seized upon a just-issued Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on broadband deployment in the United States to urge Senate and House support for the massive communications draft legislation he introduced earlier in the week (TelecomWeb news break, May 2).

Friday's GAO report - declaring U.S. broadband deployment as extensive yet admitting difficulty in assessing much-discussed rural area gaps - capped a week's worth of digestion after Stevens proposed a long-awaited sweeping rewrite draft bill called the Communications, Consumers' Choice and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (S.2686). As a result, the GAO ...

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