[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 15546]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          TRAVEL PROMOTION ACT

  Mr. ISAKSON. Madam President, to the Senator from Florida, who left 
quickly--I am sorry he left--I want to associate myself with the first 
part of his remarks with regard to the tourism bill. He is a Floridian. 
Florida is a tourism destination, and it is the No. 1 business in 
Florida, but you have to go through Georgia to get there. So I have to 
chime in and say, he is exactly right. Given the economic conditions 
our country is experiencing right now, tourism is one business we can 
be a catalyst for that will pay back both in terms of revenues and tax 
dollars, but, more importantly, in terms of jobs. So I want to 
associate myself with his support of the tourism bill in that portion 
of his speech.

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