Olympia Snowe: “I and 14 of my colleagues sent a letter to you and to Fish and Wildlife stating our opposition to listing the tuna.”

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.

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.

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.

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.