{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyburn.house.gov/clyburn-chronicles-october-podcast-features-south-carolina-broadband-director-jim-stritzinger/", "Clyburn Chronicles October Podcast Features South Carolina Broadband Director Jim Stritzinger", "2023-10-27", "2023", "2023-10", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "James E. Clyburn", "C000537", "clyburn.house.gov", "clyburn", "https://clyburn.house.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Congressman James E. Clyburn (SC-06) released the newest edition of the Clyburn Chronicles podcast with Jim Stritzinger, Director of the South Carolina Broadband Office. Director Stritzinger joined Congressman Clyburn to discuss his role and efforts to expand highspeed affordable internet to every corner of the state.\n\nIn 2023, millions of Americans still lack a reliable, high-speed connection at home. Efforts to deploy affordable, high-speed internet service is the modern equivalent of rural electrification in the 20th century in both complexity and importance.\n\n\u201cThere are plenty of people who say that is too expensive to put internet on county roads and that \u2018those people\u2019 will never use it\u2026we are going to prove them wrong,\u201d said Director Stritzinger. \u201cThe internet provides the foundation for all those things we hold special. We can lift up school teachers, we can lift up agricultural professionals, we can do research and development, we can make entrepreneurship happen\u2026the internet is as important to daily life as electricity was back in the 1930s.\u201d\n\nEfforts to make highspeed broadband affordable for low-income households have been made possible through the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which was established and funded in President Biden\u2019s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.\n\n\u201cACP is a place where qualifying families can get $30 a month towards their monthly internet bill. It\u2019s been extremely successful in South Carolina\u2026it makes me sick to my stomach to think about a child that has a beautiful, fully-functional device and they go home and they have no connectivity That\u2019s where we\u2019re leaving brilliant minds behind. We\u2019re fixing it rapidly, though, I\u2019ll be happy to share that we\u2019ve made incredible progress,\u201d Director Stritzinger continued.\n\n\u201cSouth Carolina is leading the way in this all-important broadband deployment,\u201d said Congressman Clyburn. \u201cThe gentleman that we have here today is the one that is responsible.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://clyburn.house.gov/clyburn-chronicles-october-podcast-features-south-carolina-broadband-director-jim-stritzinger/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8607960771769285, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}