Another VEEP Gets Broadband Tag

In his first speech to Congress this week, President Biden said Vice President Kamala Harris would lead the effort to get high-speed, job-creating internet access to 35% of rural America that lacks broadband.

Harris has been put in charge of President Joe Bidens push for universal broadband deployment at high speeds and affordable prices, but she is just the latest Democratic Vice President (and former senator) to draw the broadband spotlight.

As a senator, Al Gore backed legislation that expanded ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, but was mocked for suggesting, after he became Vice President, that he had created it. That came in a CNN interview in which he said that he had taken the initiative in creating the internet, by which he meant, he later said, that he had pushed for legislation to open Department of Defense research to wider, and commercial, application.

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