Olympia Snowe: “I'm not arguing so much for or against the Catch Share as I am arguing about where you're drawing the money from.”

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 need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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

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