Obama Broadband Internet Plan Short on Details, First Wave of Grants In April - Post I.T. - A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com)

Long lines stretched outside the Commerce Department building, where the three federal agencies in charge of the broadband stimulus plan hosted the first of seven public meetings. Lobbyists, telecommunications service providers from as far as Arizona and community organizers from Seattle stood in lines that stretched outside the building. They later filled the 400-person auditorium and two overflow rooms."

I don't think we've had this many people in the Commerce Department since it was built," said Bernadette McGuire-Rivera, associate administrator of the department's telecommunications policy office, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration.

Obama Broadband Internet Plan Short on Details, First Wave of Grants In April - Post I.T. - A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com)