Olympia Snowe: “We'll have to re-evaluate the Highway Trust Fund and the way in which we fund the Trust Fund.”

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.

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

The E-Rate program has fundamentally transformed education in this country.

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.