Olympia Snowe: “As you know, I was NOAA's Assistant Administrator for Fisheries when the Magnuson-Stevens Act was reauthorized in 2007.”

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.

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.