Biden visits W.Pa. to promote stimulus funds for broadband use - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

WATTSBURG — Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday traveled to this rural northwestern Pennsylvania community of 348 to detail the start of a $7.2 billion stimulus program to expand access to high-speed Internet service.

Biden, who was accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, D-Erie, spoke to a noontime crowd of about 200 at Seneca High School in Erie County's farm country...