Olympia Snowe: “I commend all of you for working this way in unison, because that is what it will require.”

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.

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

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.