Biyernes ng gabi, bumoto ang Kamara na ipasa ang $1.2 trilyong Infrastructure, Investment at Jobs Act na kinabibilangan ng $65 bilyon sa broadband investments. Popondohan ng mga pamumuhunang ito ang pag-deploy ng mga high-speed network sa mga lugar na hindi naseserbisyuhan at hindi naseserbisyuhan, gagawing mas abot-kaya ang broadband para sa mga sambahayan na mababa ang kita, at pondohan ang mga digital inclusion program na nagtitiyak na ang mga komunidad ay may mga kinakailangang kasangkapan at kasanayan upang epektibong magamit ang broadband. Kasama rin sa batas ang mahahalagang proteksyon na nagpapahusay sa transparency ng pagpepresyo ng broadband at gumagawa ng mga hakbang...

Yesterday, Common Cause, along with the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, New America’s Open Technology Institute, the United Church of Christ, OC Inc., and Free Press filed a Petition for Reconsideration with the Federal Communications Commission regarding the FCC’s 2020 Net Neutrality Remand Order. The FCC’s Remand Order concluded that the agency’s deregulation of broadband outweighs any harm to public safety, competition, and affordable broadband for low-income households.

“We welcome steps the FCC is taking to urge broadband providers connect Americans during this unprecedented pandemic our nation is currently facing.  As businesses shift to telework policies and schools transition to online-only classes for extended periods of time, communities will need robust and affordable broadband access now more than ever. Unfortunately, the FCC has spent the last few years stripping much of its authority to oversee the broadband industry, preventing many of the provisions in this pledge from being enforceable."

Connecticut’s groundbreaking election reform laws have passed a critical test with the agreement of state Democrats to pay $325,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing them of skirting the rules to use donations from state contractors to boost Gov. Dannel Malloy’s reelection campaign, Common Cause said today.

Florida's attorney general owes voters a full accounting of her handling of fraud allegations against Trump University and her acceptance of campaign contributions from a Trump-affiliated charity.

Proving that neither major party is pure when it comes to reducing the influence of money in politics, leaders of the Connecticut Democratic Party today proposed “suspending” that state’s model Clean Elections law in which 74 percent of candidates running for office participated during the 2014 election. The proposed suspension for 2016 comes on the heels of law suits filed by the Connecticut State Democratic Party that also seeks to undermine the landmark legislation.

Hindi na makakabalik ang Connecticut sa mga araw ng "Corrupticut"