Olympia Snowe: “So we want to see that steady increase keep going and not plateau until it is at or above the 23 percent.”

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.

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.

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.