Olympia Snowe: “So what can we do about that? I mean, that is a huge gap and a missed opportunity.”

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.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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.