Olympia Snowe: “It means jobs. For every $140,000 that is spent in contracting dollars, it means one job.”

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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.

I just encourage all of us to think about children, about the problems they face, and about our responsibility to help them navigate their way through those waters.

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