Olympia Snowe: “Economic development in all areas of our Nation is key to our country's economic recovery and expansion.”

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

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

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.