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  "description": "Lawmaker asks for insight on achieving broadband goals.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-06-13T20:24:02.000Z",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 12, 2025 – Rep. **Bob Latta,** R-Ohio,**** is calling on broadband companies to help support his state's deployment goals, the lawmaker said Thursday at Broadband Breakfast's Speeding BEAD summit.\n\nWhen recalling first BEAD announcement by the Biden Administration, Latta said, “We did a markup, but we never did a hearing on it.”\n\nHe questioned what role the federal government had, and if federal officials were going to pick “winners and losers” to access state money.\n\n\n\n_****Keynote by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio****_\n\n All Videos from Speeding BEAD Summit \n\n_****Can't see the video? Join the Breakfast Club to watch****_\n\n$99/month or $590/year\n\nLatta, who serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said some of the $42.45 billion in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program should be used for non-deployment purposes.\n\n“We need labor and equipment,” he said.\n\nLatta said he wants to hear from those in the broadband industry, because that is when he will acquire the background needed to represent the industry in his legislative decisions.\n\nLatta said he benefited when people visit his office to discuss their issues.\n\n“I can’t ask regulators the right questions if I’m not hearing from people doing the work,” he said.\n\nOhio has many _unserved or underserved locations_ according to the _FCC guidelines_.\n\n“We estimate that about 8 million families don’t have broadband,” Latta said, referring to the country as a whole.\n\nLatta called for release of the BEAD money so that more of his state can have access to robust broadband.\n\nLatta said that putting more regulations on broadband deployment slows the United States down in the “race against China.”\n\nHe added, “We risk falling behind— and there’s no second place in that race.”\n\nLatta hopes Ohioans will be able to share their insights on broadband with him, so that the challenges that come up with future BEAD deployment can be addressed.\n\nLatta urged his fellow Republicans to move BEAD along in their respective states.\n\n“We need to get the money out, and we need to spend it wisely,\" he said.",
  "title": "Rep. Bob Latta: Ohio Needs Broadband",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:27:55.744Z"
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