Washington, June 11 -- Congresswoman McClain Delaney issued the following press release:
Today, Representative April McClain Delaney (MD-06) led a letter (https://mcclaindelaney.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/mcclaindelaney.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/congressional-bead-letter-06-11-2026.pdf) with her House colleagues demanding that the Department of Commerce explain its continued withholding of appropriated funds that Congress explicitly authorized under its historic $65 billion-dollar internet initiative known as the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Authorized under the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and overseen by Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), this program...