Senator Dick Durbin, Senate Majority Whip, wants your help.

He’s asking every citizen, “What should America’s national broadband strategy [be]?”

How cool is that? We, the people, can help write legislation.

Today I’m writing to invite you to participate in an experiment — an interactive approach to drafting legislation on one of the most significant public policy questions today: What should be America’s national broadband strategy?

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I think we need more public participation and transparency in the way Congress crafts significant legislation. This is an approach to legislation that has never been tried before. If it’s successful — as I believe it will be — it may become the way lawmakers approach drafting bills on other issues like education, health care, and foreign policy.

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As we work together to draft a bill to solve these problems, the three principles I want to begin with are:

* Broadband access must be universal and affordable;

* We need to preserve an online environment for innovation; and

* We need to ensure that broadband technology enables more voices to be heard.

Excellent.

So, Rochester, step up to the plate. Remember, according to DFE, “the United States is the only industrialized country without a national policy to promote broadband Internet access for all people.” Now, we can change that.

Suppose you could create the perfect bill to achieve those three goals. What would it look like?

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