Olympia Snowe: “Before you pay these people, at least make sure they have good safety standards which yield a high level of safety.”

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 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.

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.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.