Olympia Snowe: “I think we need to know more, for example, with regards to the current economic crisis that's not only impacting this…”

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

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.

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.