Olympia Snowe: “So the bottom line is, is that with the increased number of Coast Guard personnel at the various stations... is…”

The E-Rate program has fundamentally transformed education in this country.

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

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.

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.