Olympia Snowe: “This is a matter of life and death. That's what I don't understand.”

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.

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

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.