Olympia Snowe: “I certainly want to commend you. And you're obviously assuming the helm of this agency at a very critical time in its…”

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 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.

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

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.