Grassroots Strength

Rural broadband “needs to be an economic justice issue,” senator says during co-op visit.

Lawmakers hope to insert the RUS repricing bill into a big infrastructure investment package.

The American Rescue Plan Act includes potential broadband funding opportunities.

NRECA CEO Jim Matheson says rural broadband must be in any infrastructure package before Congress.

Learn how co-ops will elevate their policy priorities with a new Congress and new administration.

The RUS repricing bill would provide crucial relief for co-ops hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ACRE set a new fundraising record in the 2019-2020 election cycle, raising $4,240,385 to date.

NRECA and its members will work to educate more than 60 new Congress members about co-op issues.

Biden’s agenda will be complicated by a divided Congress.

NRECA keeps pushing to allow co-ops to refinance federal loans at low interest rates.