Olympia Snowe: “Senator Snowe supports a trigger to force states to offer a public plan only if other reforms don't work.”

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.

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.