House Proceeding 03-24-09 on Mar 24th, 2009 :: 5:04:20 to 5:07:30
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Sam Farr: but that is just a little bitty speck on business travel. mr. farr: you can use your tax refund to do travel. ms. berkley: absolutely. ms. berkley: 95% of the american people will be getting a tax cut. mr. farr: i want to build on your comment about homeland security because as chair of the -- co-chair of the travel and tourism caucus we've been

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Speech By: Sam Farr

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Sam Farr: looking at two las vegas. one you have the largest hotel capacity in the united states. i believe the goal is to have 100,000 rooms. ms. berkley: we're at 140,000 now. mr. farr: 140,000? you think about that, that means that theoretically, 140,000 people could check in and check out in the same day. and so your airport is one of

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Sam Farr: the most sophisticated airports in the united states and you're starting to, which i think is a marvelous concept, of looking at, wouldn't it be a lot faster to move people if -- when they check in their baggage to go to las vegas, that that baggage then is in their room when they check in and when they leave their room, they leave the

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Sam Farr: baggage there and it's at the baggage pickup when they go home? the idea is that one for security purposes, do you this perimeter screening and you don't have to do it in the airport, secondly, they find what slows people down is sort of slepting the bags. you have to go pick them up and lift them and get into a vehicle and that just slows

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Sam Farr: things down. if people didn't have to carry all that luggage, they could move a lot of people a lot faster. so there's a lot of lessons to learn here on just how -- and frankly, we've also taken from the hotel industry the way

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Sam Farr: t.s.a., the agents who are at the gates could learn much more hospitality treatment of not being rude to passengers and just have a little bit more of a professional flairhile they also do their security business. . ere's a lot we're learning from your city that has applications throughout the united states and i hope that

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Sam Farr: we can model it and i just -- i wish that the united states would talk more and the president would talk -- whomever the president is, but presidenobama, would really talk about the the american dream and the realization of the greatness of our country by encouraging people to really see more of it and experience it.

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Sam Farr: his city of chicago is a big tourist draw, convention draw. . every community has a soul and they can build upon something that is really great. and we are in the developmental stages of trying to pull out the

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Sam Farr: essence of that soul, what the natives do, the historic aspect of the community, people settle there and build there. there is so much opportunity to expand and travel in tourism and we just have to take it away