Olympia Snowe: “That is the point here.”

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.

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

By the end of this decade, I believe that every school in America should have 1 gigabit of connectivity.