U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley spoke to KCII News about Iowa communities receiving federal resources for broadband and public transportation initiatives through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Here is what the Senator had to say, “Probably two years ago now, it passed. I was the only Republican in the delegation to vote for it, and I took a lot of political heat about it because they thought it was spending too much money. But more than half of the money in this bill is things that Congress has appropriated money for every year since 1956. 1956 was the year that they first started distributing federal gas tax because there wasn’t a federal gas tax until about that time. So every year, the federal government collects money that’s supposed to go back to the states. So every year, in a sense, we’ve had an infrastructure bill, though it’s mostly been for highways and bridges.” The state of Iowa will receive $415,331,313 from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which aims to expedite broadband provision to unserved areas. The Federal Transit Administration also allocated over $43 million.