Amy Klobuchar

I want to thank you for your work.

I think we all know that was not happening in every State, and that is why this was so important.

Beginning in 1993, we required insurers to spend a minimum amount of premium dollars on healthcare and quality for consumers.

I just want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing, and echo what Senator Thune said about your leadership and what this has meant.

We need to ensure that health care costs are controlled.

I was thinking one of our body stopped you from protecting your body.

We hope to up the funding this year as we look at some of the sentencing changes.

I am leading a COPS reauthorization bill that we are working very hard to get done.

Travel is already America's top services export.

Thank you for introducing the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014.

This bipartisan bill will reauthorize Brand USA, allowing the public-private partnership to continue its critical work promoting the U.S. abroad

Congress should continue its commitment to growing and enhancing travel to the United States by foreign travelers.

We strongly support your legislation.

We are so enthusiastically supportive of your bill to reauthorize Brand USA.

Thank you for introducing S. 2250, which reauthorizes the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014.

By attracting more visitors, Brand USA enhances U.S. economic growth, creates jobs, and advances public diplomacy--all at no cost to taxpayers.

I urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 4450/S. 2250--the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014.

The cost is underwritten jointly by private sector contributions.

Brand USA authorization goes through September of next year, and it is very important that it be reauthorized.

In fact, tourism is America's seventh largest private sector industry, and it is America's number one service export.

Tourists, particularly those from international markets, have a huge positive impact on our local and national economy.

Last month, Senators Klobuchar and Blunt, joined by two dozen bipartisan cosponsors, introduced S. 2250 to reauthorize Brand USA for five years.

For every 33 foreign tourists who come to the United States, one new American job is created and these are jobs that cannot be outsourced.

Thank you for your leadership on the reauthorization of Brand USA.

The typical international tourist visiting the United States spends an average of $4,500.