Olympia Snowe: “There is no question about it. It is all about jobs, jobs, jobs. It is not materializing, and it is severe.”

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

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.

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.