Olympia Snowe: “I certainly hope that somehow the sense of urgency in our institutions is not sublimated into bureaucratic quagmires.”

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

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.

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.

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