Olympia Snowe: “The operational tempo of the U.S. Army remains high as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue.”

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.

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

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.

Thank you. I will be a fast talker. And I want to thank all of you for your very impressive testimony.