Olympia Snowe: “We have already increased the national debt by 44, 45 percent under this administration.”

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.

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

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

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.