We have once again reintroduced a bipartisan piece of legislation called the Travel Promotion Act of 2009.
It creates an Office of Travel Promotion, with the Department of Commerce to serve as a liaison.
We want you to visit.
Now we can decide to be disarmed, and we can be in a competition in which we are not competing.
This just isn't one of them, this issue of trying to get our share of international tourism.
I don't ever, in a hearing want to suggest to the American people that when they get on an airplane they are in any way unsafe.
We cannot afford to lose one airplane, one passenger, one pilot without looking at how we can do it better.
The technology has marched ahead but the Air Traffic Control System has not.
We ought to get about the business of modernizing the Air Traffic Control System.
But as I said earlier, we're going to hold a hearing on safety, I want to do that very soon, which will include some of these issues.
There are occasions when I wonder whether there are certain kinds of flights in which there is substantially less experience in the cockpit.