Olympia Snowe: “I just cannot understand why this is not all being coordinated. It has to be one-stop shopping.”

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

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.

Do you think it is possible to draw a line, the cutoff on $250,000?

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.