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...fundamentally about creating jobs and encouraging economic activity," explains Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), the bill's main sponsor and a leading member of the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. "It will also help put a better public face on the nation," Dorgan adds. "While other countries are working hard to woo travelers, we seem to be sending a message that we don't want them here...
Although the fee will likely be "hidden" within airfares, Harteveldt is concerned that it could ultimately work against TPA initiatives and "come back to haunt us." But Senator Dorgan counters that $10 is far lower than similar fees - ranging from Ireland's $14 entry tax to the U.K.'s whopping $100 - paid by Americans when they travel abroad. And with a mere 35 countries that would be required to pay the fee, fewer than 30% of foreign travelers will be affected...
...Punishing the American people in our effort to somehow deal a blow to the Castro government has not made any sense at all.' BYRON L. DORGAN, U.S. Senator, on a bill that would lift the 50-year-old travel ban to Cuba...
...make the Dems' hold on power even stronger, much of this Congress's work is really more about laying the foundation for next year. "Some of these things are like spring training, you know, that the real game is going to be played next year," says Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat...
...months later, Dorgan seems to have been proven right and Pelosi, on yet another issue, has not been able to deliver on her promises to get things done. Organized labor, and half the caucus, is actively lobbying against the first trade treaties a Democratic Congress has been confronted with since the Clinton era. Thursday night the House is anticipated to finally pass the first, and least controversial, of the treaties - the Peru Free Trade Act - before it heads to the Senate, where it is expected to have an easier time. Pelosi and Schwab came to an agreement on the Peruvian...