Olympia Snowe: “I would appreciate those numbers for the Committee, if you have the numbers of jobs created.”

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.

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.

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.

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