Olympia Snowe: “There is a widening gap... the U.S. trade gap is widening in advanced technologies.”

I just encourage all of us to think about children, about the problems they face, and about our responsibility to help them navigate their way through those waters.

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

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.

By the end of this decade, I believe that every school in America should have 1 gigabit of connectivity.