Olympia Snowe: “One essential way of doing that is through broadband deployment.”

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

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

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.

By the end of this decade, I believe that every school in America should have 1 gigabit of connectivity.