Olympia Snowe: “The problem is so pervasive, so overwhelming.”

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

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.

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 need to create E-Rate 2.0.