Olympia Snowe: “Deferring to caution and reducing total allowable catch can destroy a community, such as Prospect Harbor, Maine.”

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.

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.

If we ever want to harness the wind off of our shores, it has to be through an investment tax credit.

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