Olympia Snowe: “We would welcome the opportunity to brief the subcommittee on the results of this review once completed.”

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

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.

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.