Olympia Snowe: “It simply does not make--there is no economic rationale.”

What is needed is honest, fact-based discussion and a genuine bipartisan commitment to solutions.

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.

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