Olympia Snowe: “The interesting part about all that is whether or not it would allow compatibility of all these different activities.”

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.

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.

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.