Olympia Snowe: “I want to commend you, Senator Collins, for your initiative on small businesses and on regulatory reform.”

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.

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

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

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.