Olympia Snowe: “Excellent. Excellent suggestion. Sorry you are going through it. I can only imagine the difficulty in all that.”

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.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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.

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