Olympia Snowe: “I just think this is making life infinitely harder for individuals in the final analysis in getting a true accounting.”

What is needed is honest, fact-based discussion and a genuine bipartisan commitment to solutions.

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

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

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.