Olympia Snowe: “Again, your assistance is greatly appreciated and I look forward to working with you on this matter in the Finance…”

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.

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.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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