Your leadership on this issue is essential to making our voices heard in Minnesota and nationwide and in passing this long-awaited legislation.
Thank you for your leadership in calling these series of hearings on our industry's behalf.
The goal of this bill is to increase the number of potential international visitors to the United States.
That was such a fiasco. And so, it's improved, but it still isn't where it should be.
I can't comment on that.
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