Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Va., 61, died Monday from complications from colorectal cancer, his office said. McEachin, a House Communications Subcommittee member since 2019, had been active on rural broadband issues and helped spearhead a push last year to include $5…
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billion in a voucher program in the Build Back Better Act budget reconciliation package aimed at subsidizing computers and other devices for low-income families (see 2109170053). "I am deeply saddened by" McEachin's death, said House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J. McEachin "fought to close the digital divide throughout the nation, but particularly in the rural communities he represented in Virginia." His "voice will be greatly missed" on the panel, Pallone said. House Commerce ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said she’s “deeply saddened to hear of” McEachin’s death. “He was a respected voice on” the committee “and served the people of Virginia faithfully in this position,” Rodgers said: “He will be greatly missed by all of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.”