Fischer, Cortez Masto File Bill to Increase Oversight of FCC Broadband Funding Map

Fischer, Cortez Masto File Bill to Increase Oversight of FCC Broadband Funding Map

Senate Communications Subcommittee Chair Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., on Thursday filed the Modernization, Accountability and Planning for Broadband Funding Act in a bid to increase oversight of the FCC's broadband funding map. The bill would...

Sens. Fischer, Cortez Mastro Introduce MAP for Broadband Funding Act

WASHINGTON, August 1, 2025 – A bill introduced Thursday would modernize a federal map that tracks where government funding has been spent on broadband deployment.Sens. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, and Catherine Cortez Mastro, D-Nevada, introduced the Modernization, Accountability, and Planning (MAP) for Broadband Funding Act to provide new oversight of the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Funding Map. The MAP for Broadband Funding Act s…