Olympia Snowe: “That's exactly right.”

Due in no small part to the leadership of Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, the E-Rate program from its inception focused on providing high-capacity transmission services to libraries and schools.

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.

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

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