Olympia Snowe: “We thank you for giving your time, your precious time, away from your work.”

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 would not have connectivity and all that it brings to our schools and libraries if it were not for E-Rate.

If we ever want to harness the wind off of our shores, it has to be through an investment tax credit.

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.