WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued the following press release:

"This is the cost of doing business. This is the cost of our healthcare. This is the cost of even connecting to our neighbors."

Clickhereto watch Senator Blunt Rochester's remarks.

U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media,today participated in a hearing on how artificial intelligence impacts communications systems. Senator Blunt Rochester's questions focused on how reliable internet access is critical in an increasingly AI economy and questioned how the Trump administration's funding cuts to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment...