THUNE, LUJAN, BARRASSO LEGISLATION TO EXPEDITE BROADBAND PERMITS TO UNSERVED COMMUNITIES HEADS TO FULL SENATE

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. John Thune issued the following press release:

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today applauded the Commerce Committee for unanimously passing their Accelerating Broadband Permits Act of 2026 (S. 4448) (https://sen.gov/7Y47V), bipartisan legislation that would improve federal agencies' review and processing of broadband permits and allow service to be more quickly deployed to unserved communities. The legislation, which now heads to the full Senate, would cut unnecessary red tape and increase transparency into the federal permitting process. It would also require all federal agencie...