Olympia Snowe: “President Obama has chosen in this Fiscal Year to impose a freeze on nonmilitary discretionary spending.”

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.

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

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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.