Olympia Snowe: “The corporate interests are not necessarily the public's interest.”

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

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

Thank you. I will be a fast talker. And I want to thank all of you for your very impressive testimony.