Olympia Snowe: “True parity requires an equal opportunity for all the programs to compete”

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.

Thank you. I will be a fast talker. And I want to thank all of you for your very impressive testimony.

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