House Majority Whip James Clyburn joined broadband advocates, providers and policymakers to discuss how the FCC’s National Broadband Plan will affect the broadband stimulus.  Clyburn believes that broadband is essential to the recovery effort today.

Most of the communities that Clyburn represents were left out of earlier census tracks, and he is working tireless to make sure that that the recovery package will not repeat those mistakes.   The communities that Clyburn represents in South Carolina stand to recover, as does the entire nation, through broadband.  “Networks are very important to communities like mine.”

Clyburn believes strongly in the tremendous potential of broadband to advance education and health care.  “We can’t do health care correctly if we don’t do broadband sufficiently.”   He further made a special call to action for rural broadband, saying that connecting these communities will help them pull out of unemployment.   “It will move rural communities into our new economy.”

And by new economy, he surely he means our broadband economy.

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