Olympia Snowe: “For Maine, these risks cannot be understated. Wild-caught fisheries are a fundamental part of our heritage.”

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.

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.

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.