Olympia Snowe: “One of the key components of the JPSS is the Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking sensor, SARSAT.”

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

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

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

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.