Olympia Snowe: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Secretary Napolitano. In fact, one of my staff people witnessed your work at TSA…”

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.

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.

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