Olympia Snowe: “I thought it was the most notable in your funding request, that, of all the funding requests, it represented the…”

What is needed is honest, fact-based discussion and a genuine bipartisan commitment to solutions.

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

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.

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.