Professional Association of Innkeepers Int'l

(Washington, D.C., July 18, 2007) - Hoteliers are urged to contact their Senators and Representatives and urge them to cosponsor legislation that will maintain the relief of the H-2B visa program that is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2007.

Senators should be asked to cosponsor S. 988 introduced by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) which would extend the H-2B relief provision for 5 years.

Representatives should be asked to cosponsor H.R. 1843 introduced by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) which would make the H-2B relief provision permanent.

The current H-2B relief was approved at the urging of AH&LA and others who rely on access to seasonal labor. The number of seasonal workers available under the H-2B program is capped at 66,000 per year. The relief measure effectively increases the number of H-2B visa seasonal workers available by exempting workers from the cap who have worked in the U.S. under the H-2B visa program in any one of the three years prior to a year could work under the program again. This relief provision will expire on September 30 unless it is renewed by Congress. The provision which was enacted along with the provision that divided the annual allotment of H-2B visas into two portions, with 33,000 being distributed in the first half of the fiscal year and the remaining distributed in the second half of the fiscal year, is permanent.

To strengthen AH&LA's lobbying efforts, all hoteliers should immediately contact their Senators and Representatives through www.ahla.com/grassroots or call them directly and urge them to cosponsor S. 988 or H.R. 1843.

Click the link below to log in and send your message:
http://votervoice.net/target.aspx?id=ahla:17545669

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PAII Membership Minutes:
Share Your Successes

Please let us know if your inn is featured in any local or national newspapers or magazines. We would like to share your public relations successes with your peers in the industry through our newsletter. Email PAII membership at membership@paii.org and let us know of your accomplishments.

C'mon, brag a little!

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PAII Forum Digest:
Do you Practice Conservation? & More!
If you have not had time to log on to the Forum located in the Members Only section of www.paii.org,
here are some of the interesting topics that have been discussed this past week.

Do you Practice Conservation?
In this day and age of global warming, I am curious to know how many of you practice conservation in all its

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PAII Food Feature:
A Cardinal House's Mini Lobster Frittata
Let us feature a recipe from your inn!
Please send your submission (and a photo of the dish if available) to Laura@paii.org.
Kevin and Nancy Lepore, A Cardinal House (www.acardinalhouse.com) in Glastonbury, Connecticut, offers this great recipe for Mini Lobster Frittata. Makes four frittatas

Mini Lobster Frittata

Ingredients:
8oz Lobster meat, Knuckles and Claws, chopped
4oz cream cheese
6 eggs, whipped
1 tsp chives, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Spray muffin pan with nonstick spray. Take ¼ of chopped lobster meat and combine with ¼ of cream cheese and place in muffin pan. Repeat four times. Add ¼ of whipped eggs to each of the four muffin pans. Top with chopped chives. Salt and pepper to taste. Set entire muffin pan in a water bath and place on middle rack of a 400 degree preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes, or until egg is set. Remove from oven and let sit for 5 minutes before removing from muffin pan. Place in a serving plate and garnish with pineapple mango salsa.

Pineapple Mango Salsa
8oz fresh pineapple, finely diced
4oz fresh mango, finely diced
1 tbs finely diced red bell pepper
1 tsp chopped fresh cilantro
1 tbs vegetable oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Combine all ingredients and garnish mini lobster frittata as desired. Serve with house home fried potatoes.

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PAII Pointer:
Cleaning Coffee Makers
Drop an Efferdent® denture cleaning tablet in a 10 cup coffee maker and add hot water it instead of cold. Brew as usual then rinse.

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