It's remarkable, as my colleagues have noted, how quickly technology has changed over the last few years.

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Mine safety must be their highest priority.

Do you have any plans of expanding these guidelines to other smaller enforcement actions?

I'd like to associate myself with Senator Murray's remarks, and address myself to the families, and thank them for being here to bear witness and to make sure that this doesn't happen to other miners and other families.

I think we have to examine what we can do legally to make sure that mines that are clearly not safe are shut down.

AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota, Chairman

This is a new marketing technique.

I just wanted to go back to what can be tension, but can turn into a positive thing.

We all talk about bringing peace to the world. I can think of no better way to encourage peace than to encourage people from all over the world to enjoy the spiritual sanctuary of our National Parks.

Right. And then you went from 19,000 visitors in 2007 to 50,000 last year, a 30,000 jump.

I think if every community that has a park have--make sure that there's money for the park to bring those kids into that park, would help get kids excited about it.

If we didn't have Wi-Fi, they wouldn't come to our park.

Every 1 percent we lost to that international tourism business--we've gone down 20 percent since 9/11--has cost us 170,000 jobs in this country.

So, the idea is, on their iPods, these people that are traveling across country, they can download info on the park.

I think having our Tourism Subcommittee... look at it in a different way, in terms of the function of those parks for jobs and for education.

We are really excited about the Travel Promotion Act and look forward to working with you.