we'd like them to come elsewhere, as well, in our State

The visitor industry applauds the vision and efforts of Senator Amy Klobuchar.

So I think you're right, it's quite a amazing success story of how a mid-sized town is able to do that.

the community loses jobs and revenue.

We would also like to acknowledge that it wouldn't have passed its first steps without the important leadership from Senator Klobuchar.

Minnesota is not doing as much. And so, I think a U.S. travel promotion organization not only would allow us to compete

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

If we take care of the line workers, as were mentioned, you're going to see, hopefully, a spike back up in tourism.

As you know, because you've been very supportive of it, we're working on a project to return rail passenger service between here and the Twin Cities.

we want to make the market there for bringing people to our State, and we're going to have to get this bill passed

It would be very helpful for our country, for the long term, to pass this bill, to make sure people know, in Minnesota, that there are good deals close to home.