Olympia Snowe: “I think that we have to determine what will best work in terms of restructuring the systems within the agency”

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.

If we ever want to harness the wind off of our shores, it has to be through an investment tax credit.

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

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.