Every single state in this Nation has someplace beautiful and wonderful to travel to, and we want to make sure that they can get there.

So, you have an anticipated completion date by the end of this year?

the pandemic had worsened the long standing barriers to workforce participation in travel and tourism industry and had created new hurdles to the workplace and to workplace satisfaction.

I am telling you, there is nobody that knows tourism more than a Senator whose state has more than 10,000 likes.

the law requires a strategic plan to be updated within 180 days of enactment of the law.

I was proud to lead with Senator Wicker.

Thank you for agreeing to work with me in a bipartisan way to address the critical issues that are so important to our workers, our businesses, and our families.

The success of all these efforts is critical to the U.S. economy, particularly the economy in my state of Nevada.

We can't do any of this without a workforce, right?

Thank you. Are you ready, Senator Klobuchar? I am going to----

It is very exciting as we want to show off our beautiful country to the world.

it has been nearly 600 days since the IIJA was signed into law.

Every single state in this Nation has someplace beautiful and wonderful to travel to, and we want to make sure that they can get there.

the plan hasn't been updated.

can you talk about, as you contemplate the strategy, some of the ways the Department plans to support tourism essential congested highways?

It is a great subcommittee.

So, you have an anticipated completion date by the end of this year?

Well, thank you. I appreciate you all being here for today's hearing. We learned an awful lot.

Outdoor tourism is a major part of Nevada's economy, particularly in our rural communities and in the Northern part of our state.

I appreciate your work and your willingness to serve.

But I would urge putting an app as well, because most people, if they are in a disaster, what do they leave with? Just a phone.

Maintaining legacy IT systems requires a specialized workforce.

I was pleased to see a disaster later declared, so it allows our Nevada residents, our local businesses, our Tribal communities the access to the Federal resources that they need.

In March, this Committee, we are very proud to have marked up the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, bipartisan legislation I introduced, that requires OMB to coordinate a governmentwide effort to develop minimum requirements for Federal…

I appreciate your work and your willingness to serve.