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David Schweikert: “The capital expenditures on the pipes, you know, the ability…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Congressman David Schweikert: America Is Dying And What To Do About It

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:13

Do you remember net neutrality? Oh, yeah. Okay. So during the Obama administration, we need to control the Internet. Okay. So we had net neutrality for like one year. And The capital expenditures on the pipes, you know, the ability to move huge amounts of data crashed in the United States [during net neutrality]. And then this guy named President Trump comes back in, he puts actually sort of a pro market person to head the fcc. And all of a sudden the investment goes spiking way back up. (1:01:13–1:01:24)

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