Olympia Snowe: “I think we can turn it around. I thank the Committee for holding a hearing like this.”

I do want to acknowledge the bipartisan effort and support for the E-Rate Program by Chairman Rockefeller and Maine's original E-Rate champion, Olympia Snowe.

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.

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.

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