A half hours. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] this hearing will come to water. Welcome, welcome. Today the committee convenes to broadband during the covid19 pandemic. I extend my appreciation for my colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, norm
Colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, normal activities like work, school, Healthcare Services are increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick in the use of broadband. One estimate shows average Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. Good news is that theres been some progress in connecting all americans. The fcc has recently released broadband deployment report shows
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I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi