House Proceeding 01-28-09 on Jan 28th, 2009 :: 1:51:50 to 1:57:05
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Maxine Waters: recorded vote has been made. further proceedings on the amendment offered by the postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment number six. r what purpose does the rise? ms. waters: i have an amendment at the desk. designate the amendment.

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Speech By: Maxine Waters

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Maxine Waters: the clerk: amendment number six offered in report 111-9 offered by ms. waters of california. the chair: the gentlewoman ms. waters and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the gentlewoman from california. ms. waters: this is not a

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Maxine Waters: complicated amendment. it simply clarifies that funds provided for job traing and -- in division a of this bill can be used for programs in division b, in particular for broadband communications deployment. . what are we talking about? the broadband infrastructure. the package authorizes the national telecommunications information administration, a

1:52:46 to 1:53:06( Edit History Discussion )

Maxine Waters: part of the commee department, to distribute . 25 billion for wireless and wirelin broadband throh a grant program. this is extremely important. here we are in 2009, there are manyommunities throughout this country that are simply underserved.

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Maxine Waters: they do not have broadband. we are going to take this opportunity to repair or to build out the broadband infrastructure. we are going to take this opportunity to bring these communities up to date so that there can be more jobs. that businesses can be supported.

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Maxine Waters: and that families can have access to the kind of technology that will help them pursue jobs, careers, and students to have access to the kind of technology that will help them to communicate with other students and with their teachers, etc., etc. this is very important. now, the job traing in this

1:53:49 to 1:54:09( Edit History Discussion )

Maxine Waters: bill is in one section. and of course broadband infrastructure is described in another section. i simply allow the job traing resources to be used on broadband infrastructure. someone has asked, does this mean that you're taking all the money and job traing for broadband?

1:54:10 to 1:54:30( Edit History Discussion )

Maxine Waters: no. this simply means that we make the opportunity available for this money to be used for broadband infrastructure. where did i get this idea? i was fortunate enough to witness what could be done in the expansion of broadband opportunities.

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Maxine Waters: and part of my district we ended up with a traing class at one of our schoolser for the laying of optic fibers, fiber optics. and the young people who took advantage of this opportunity ended up getting trained, they

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Maxine Waters: got good jobs, many of them moved into other communities. they bought homes. these are not simply dead end jobs be. these are careers that can be developed with this kind of training. we know that there's job training and there's job training. there's some of this job training that's kind of classroom oriented. there's some jobs that are

1:55:15 to 1:55:37( Edit History Discussion )

Maxine Waters: so-called trained for that don't really exist. but this is real. we know that the telecommunications industry must keep up with the expansion. we know that they do some training. we know that they did more training in the past. but to the degree that we could help get this traing done, we can create jobs, expand

1:55:38 to 1:56:00( Edit History Discussion )

Maxine Waters: broadband opportunities, and truly create these careers. i'm very pleased that approximately billion would go to the deployment of wireless service. 25% to wireless voice service in underserved areas. and 75% to advance wireless broadband in underserved areas.

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Maxine Waters: approximately .825 billion would go to the deployment of broadband via fiber or other wires. 25% to basic broadband in underserved areas. and 75% to advance broadband in underserved areas. this is a one-time opportunity

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Maxine Waters: to get a lot of young people trained. it's not enough to say that we are going to do job traing that may lead to simply some jobs for a short period of time. some of those jobs may be in construction, but they wil last for as long as the project will last. some of those jobs that we hope to come on line are not going to

1:56:44 to 1:57:04( Edit History Discussion )

Maxine Waters: come on as quickly as we would like them to. but these opportunities are waiting. these opportunities are waiting and the telecommunications companies and the contractors who work with them can get this job traing up and going immediately. and it's not a long time.

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Maxine Waters: in the traing that i