Olympia Snowe: “It can obviously have a profound impact on life and death matters.”

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.

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.

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

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