Olympia Snowe: “We believe that these 100,000-pound trucks, they don't have any business on the local roads.”

What is needed is honest, fact-based discussion and a genuine bipartisan commitment to solutions.

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.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.