Olympia Snowe: “I just do not understand this, because going through your process in SBA, if you are a catalyst at solving it and doing…”

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.

Thank you. I will be a fast talker. And I want to thank all of you for your very impressive testimony.

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.