this cruise industry produces 120,000 jobs in Florida and untold amounts of economic activity because of this phenomenon that cruise guests fly in and they stay a night or two, get...
five of those ports have a heavy emphasis on cruise and cruise-related business.
the cruise industry is the single largest contributor to overnight stays, to occupancy of hotels, in our community.
PortMiami, obviously, is a critical job creator--a job incubator, if you will, for our state.
programs like RMAP are critical to rural America, small businesses that make up 90 percent of all rural businesses.
if we do not broaden the base for feedstocks, it is going to be nearly impossible to reach the 36 billion gallons requirement by 2022.
What we need to do is be sure that there is a parity here among all the nations that gain from this security apparatus that we have.
It is hard to draw an analogy other than to say that trying to put together something on a stop-gap basis might get us through 2013 but does...
Our new national strategy calls for an increase in our presence.
The new U.S. national strategy, as has been indicated, calls for the increase in our presence and involvement, more involvement in the Asia-...
I hope we ask very aggressively and assertively, because of the importance of appropriate partnerships in terms of who contributes to the pa...