AHLA Urges Swift Passage of Bipartisan Senate Per Diem Bill

AHLA | June 23, 2021

WASHINGTON – June 23, 2021 – American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) President and CEO Chip Rogers released the below statement after Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced S.2160, the “Restored, Equitable, Coronavirus Adjusted Lodging (RECAL) Act,” a bipartisan bill that would require the General Services Administration (GSA) to calculate federal per diem rates for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 using data from 2018 and 2019, prior to the pandemic wiping out 10 years of job growth in the hotel industry.   “Government travel supports tens of thousands of hotel jobs and billions in travel spending ...