Peter Welch: “This program will expire in months and notices will be going…”

“That program has been tremendously beneficial to folks you represent and I represent, and to my colleagues who are my co sponsors on the extension bill. Because This program will expire in months and notices will be going out to families that that rebate they've depended on is expiring. But that's why the bipartisan nature of this reflects how this Internet program is so essential to everybody who not wants and needs to have access to Internet, whether they're in a Republican district or not, whether they're Democratic or not.” (03:38–03:50)

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