COVID-19 UPDATE | MONDAY, JUNE 29 (AM)
June 29, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
Congress Senate Activities More than a dozen Democratic Senators wrote a letter to various federal agencies tasked with fighting foreign interference and disinformation, asking them to ramp up their efforts. The letter, led by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and written to the heads of […]
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COVID-19 UPDATE | FRIDAY, JUNE 26
June 26, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
Congress Senate Activities Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) led a letter with 18 bipartisan Senators asking for the Senate Armed Services Committee to include provisions supporting advanced nuclear power in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) led a letter with 16 other Senators to […]
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COVID-19 UPDATE | THURSDAY, JUNE 25
June 25, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
Congress Senate Activities The Senate moved to consideration of S. 4041, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA), easily passing the first procedural hurdle by a vote of 90-7. Debate on the legislation will continue into next week and the legislation will likely pass the Senate before the July 4 break, though […]
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CANADIAN COVID-19 UPDATE | JUNE 25 – 29
June 25, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
TIAC’s Advocacy Update Early tomorrow, TIAC will be launching an in-depth industry survey that will cover the use of government support programs to obtain much-needed data to Government in order to address support for the visitor economy. While TIAC understands that multiple requests for surveys may feel burdensome on industry, we must continue to collect […]
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Canadian COVID-19 Update | Wednesday, June 24
June 24, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
TIAC’s Advocacy Update Today, the TIAC-led industry policy committee met to share how businesses in our sector are adapting to regional re-openings, and the work done so far to promote the industry recovery plan Statistics Canada’s international visitation numbers for April have been released showing a steep decline in international arrivals by 98.3% year over […]
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COVID-19 UPDATE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
June 24, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
Congress Senate Activities S. 3985, the JUSTICE Act, failed a procedural vote today by a tally of 55-45, complicating the prospects for police reform this Congress. As expected, all Senate Democrats, except Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Angus King (I-ME), voted against allowing the legislation to proceed. All Republicans voted […]
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COVID-19 Update | Tuesday, June 23
June 23, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
Congress Senate Activities It currently appears as if Senate Democrats will block the vote on the motion to proceed to Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) police reform bill. However, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that the Democrats would allow the Senate to proceed to the bill if an agreement on amendments can be reached. […]
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COVID-19 Update | Monday, June 22 (PM)
June 22, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
Congress Senate Activities The first procedural vote on Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) policing bill will occur on Wednesday morning. The Democrats have not announced whether or not they will support allowing the bill to be debated and the Republicans have not indicated if they will allow amendments. The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, […]
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Canadian COVID-19 Update | June 18 – 22
June 22, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
TIAC’s Advocacy Update Tomorrow, the Honourable Melanie Joly will announce financial assistance to support the tourism sector in its recovery efforts at 1:30pm More information can be found here TIAC will keep the industry apprised of developments Building off our June 5th national press conference on TIAC’s Recovery Plan, this week we will be bringing more […]
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COVID-19 Update| Monday, June 22 (AM)
June 22, 2020 / Really Old Microsites
Congress Senate Activities The Senate will vote on whether to proceed to S. 3985, Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) JUSTICE Act on police reform this week. Democrats and Republicans in both chambers are currently working to build bipartisan support for their respective proposals. In the Senate, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) signaled that he will agree to […]
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