[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5823]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                LET'S PROMOTE AMERICA'S TOURISM INDUSTRY

  (Mr. ROTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, I want to bring a positive message here to the 
House this morning. I want to thank all of my colleagues for supporting 
travel and tourism because travel and tourism basically is a small 
business operation.
  Mr. Speaker, since this is Small Business Week, it is a perfect time 
to talk about travel and tourism. Ninety-nine percent of all of travel 
and tourism in the United States is small business. These are people, 
men and women, who work day in and day out for their country and who 
pay the taxes that we the politicians all too often spend.
  Tourism supports over 14 million jobs, as the gentlewoman from 
Maryland said this morning, and is the largest employer in 44 of the 50 
States. Yet hardly ever is a word spoken for travel and tourism. Do you 
want to know why? Because the people involved in travel and tourism are 
at home working in the small communities throughout America day in and 
day out trying to raise a family, trying to keep their bills paid. They 
do not have a lot of time come and lobby Congress. But the small 
business people who really run travel and tourism run this country and 
make it possible for us to have the strong economy we do have.

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