Olympia Snowe: “So, I'm going to explore with you the issue of distance.”

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.

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.

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.