Your leadership on this issue is essential to making our voices heard in Minnesota and nationwide and in passing this long-awaited legislation.

Byron Dorgan and I are sponsoring the Travel Promotion Act.

I think we all know that Minnesota has an abundance of travel and vacation opportunities, and I want to make sure that our tourism continues to be strong and a vital part of our economy.

There's no substitute for a great Minnesota vacation.

We need those people to be there.

That was such a fiasco. And so, it's improved, but it still isn't where it should be.

I've gotten a lot of good ideas from this that I can bring back to Washington, good examples that we can use.

We handled, between Senator Coleman's office and ours, we each handled about 1,500 emergency cases for passports.

So, again, thank you so much for being here and sharing your expertise and your insight on the tourism industry.

We didn't know that we were in Mecca for wine.

There's $8 billion in the stimulus plan for rail projects that people are bidding on right now.

we have to think creatively about things that Minnesota could offer

So, that's why I hope having this Minnesota office will help us for our travel.

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It will make America more competitive in the global travel market and grow the Nation's inbound travel.

I think people are looking for deals, and it, again, will keep workers employed and keep the business going.

there's going to be a $10 fee on visas on--for people coming in from other countries

I will say, I was thinking, as you spoke, mayor, about how when I was growing up, our family would come up a lot to the North Shore.