Olympia Snowe: “I think we've pushed real hard on, as Senator Nelson said, broadband, and through the stimulus package, which some…”

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

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.

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.

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