House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., backs...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., backs MGW Network’s application for $4.6 million in funding from the FCC’s rural broadband experiments initiative pegged to the Connect America Fund. He sent FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler a letter dated March 12, released Friday (http://bit.ly/1kJystp), saying that and calling MGW a “third-generation, family-owned telecommunications company” that hopes to provide broadband service to some Virginia residents for the first time. He wrote a separate letter (http://bit.ly/1lf8bWt) backing the BARC Electric Cooperative, serving Bath, Alleghany and Rockbridge counties in Virginia, and its plan to deploy fiber-to-the-premises.