What color is your parachute?

Here's the worst sentence in the recent NPRM: "Given the substantial expansion of broadband access in schools and libraries over the last three decades, we seek comment on whether and to what extent the E-Rate program has fulfilled that mission and whether continued funding is consistent with Congress’s original objective." (It's in the middle of paragraph 12.)

It makes me think of the story of a man who jumps out of a plane and deploys his parachute, and then about halfway down decides "This parachute has slowed my descent quite well; now that it has fulfilled that mission, I think I'll cut it loose."

It's a problem of tense. I wouldn't say: "the E-Rate program has fulfilled that mission"; I'd say: "the E-Rate program is fulfilling that mission." Broadband access is not a one-time purchase.