RUS skating on thin ice

One of the most notable things I observed at yesterday's Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on the broadband stimulus was the precarious situation that RUS finds itself in.

For starters, Sen. Rockefeller went out of his way multiple times to suggest that if he had it his way that RUS wouldn't have gotten any money from the broadband stimulus. He said that at the beginning, and then made another jab at the end where when referring to both Adelstein and Strickling he said that they represent one and a half agencies, alluding to his belief that RUS doesn't even constitute a whole agency...