[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E20]
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                  TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE BUD SHUSTER

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                          HON. JOHN P. MURTHA

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 27, 1998

  Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to my fellow 
Pennsylvanian, colleague and good friend, Congressman Bud Shuster, on 
the occasion of his twenty-fifth year of excellent service in the 
United States House of Representatives as the Representative of the 
good people of the Ninth Congressional District of Pennsylvania. Bud 
was victorious in seeking his first term of office in November 1972 and 
the rest is history. As president of the Freshman Class of 1973, Bud 
Shuster brought to Congress his vision of economic prosperity for 
Central Pennsylvania and a true commitment to the nation's 
infrastructure. To this end, he has been the principal author of much 
of America's transportation legislation. On January 4, 1995, Bud became 
Chairman of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, the largest 
committee in the U.S. Congress.
  I am honored to join in making this tribute his Congressional Staff, 
past and present, who share a common bond of great respect for their 
``boss'' for his unparalleled service to his constituents, his skilled 
mastery of the legislative process, and for his dedicated mission to 
provide a better standard of living for Pennsylvania and for the United 
States of America. He is a leader of the first order whose ideas are 
clear and whose goals remain constant. He is a man whose strength 
sustains his colleagues and those staffers who have served him 
throughout these past twenty five years of American history.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in congratulating Congressman Bud 
Shuster, a native son of Pennsylvania, on his twenty five years of 
excellent service in Congress.

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