Olympia Snowe: “Ocean policy starts on land. It starts in St. Louis and the decisions that are made on the Mississippi River.”

If we ever want to harness the wind off of our shores, it has to be through an investment tax credit.

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.

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