“We commend Subcommittee Chairman Hudson on introducing the SPEED for BEAD Act. This legislation properly focuses on improvements to eliminate onerous requirements that impede broadband deployment efforts and improve efficiencies needed to reach all Americans with broadband service. By concentrating BEAD on this crucial mission — deploying broadband networks to unserved and underserved communities — we can more effectively use scarce resources to deliver this essential infrastructure to communities so long in need. We look forward to working with the Administration and Congress to advance this legislation and support reforms that ensure fair competition, prevent wasteful overbuilding, reduce unnecessary regulations, and streamline grants.”