Olympia Snowe: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I would like to take this opportunity to commend you for your extraordinary and visionary…”

Due in no small part to the leadership of Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, the E-Rate program from its inception focused on providing high-capacity transmission services to libraries and schools.

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.

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