Olympia Snowe: “Our national debt will reach 100 percent of GDP by the end of 2011.”

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

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.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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