Olympia Snowe: “I think that would be critical and a useful tool to ferret out a lot of the inefficiencies.”

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.

I do want to acknowledge the bipartisan effort and support for the E-Rate Program by Chairman Rockefeller and Maine's original E-Rate champion, Olympia Snowe.

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.