Olympia Snowe: “It is a terrible oversight that we wouldn't have had all this tested in the interim in response to the plan.”

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

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.

If we ever want to harness the wind off of our shores, it has to be through an investment tax credit.

The E-Rate program has fundamentally transformed education in this country.