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01/26/2015
Senator Booker Unveils Muncipal Broadband Bill After SOTU
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is slated to introduce legislation meant to push back on state laws restricting the build out of city-run Internet networks. The announcement comes a day after President Obama's State of the Union address in which he highlighted his own plan to expand municipal broadband across the country. Booker's legislation — the Community Broadband Act — would block any state "statute, regulation, or other legal requirement" that restricts cities from providing their own Internet network. His legislation to tweak the Telecommunications Act of 1996 will be introduced Thursday.
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