Olympia Snowe: “The Administration opposed direct lending as well. It essentially did not want the government to become a bank.”

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.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

By the end of this decade, I believe that every school in America should have 1 gigabit of connectivity.

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.