Olympia Snowe: “Obviously I gathered that everything contributed to the real estate devaluation in those zero years in which there was…”

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.

We would not have connectivity and all that it brings to our schools and libraries if it were not for E-Rate.

We need to create E-Rate 2.0.

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.