Olympia Snowe: “I wanted to follow up on some of the issues that were raised by my colleague, Senator Kent Conrad, about the issue of…”

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.

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.

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