Olympia Snowe: “The private sector should be strategically relied upon to deliver next-generation weather services”

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.

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

We would not have connectivity and all that it brings to our schools and libraries if it were not for E-Rate.

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.