Olympia Snowe: “But, you know, these companies don't have any direction. They don't have, really, the benefit until it's too late of any…”

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.

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

We would not have connectivity and all that it brings to our schools and libraries if it were not for E-Rate.

I just encourage all of us to think about children, about the problems they face, and about our responsibility to help them navigate their way through those waters.