Olympia Snowe: “I do want to acknowledge the bipartisan effort and support for the E-Rate Program by Chairman Rockefeller and Maine's…”

In closing, libraries are vital community technology hubs, and we simply cannot allow inadequate bandwidth to be the limiting factor for what our students and our nations can achieve.

What is needed is honest, fact-based discussion and a genuine bipartisan commitment to solutions.

Thank you. I will be a fast talker. And I want to thank all of you for your very impressive testimony.

If we ever want to harness the wind off of our shores, it has to be through an investment tax credit.