[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 152 (Friday, November 22, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2134]
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                HONORING FORMER CONGRESSMAN BUD SHUSTER

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                         HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 22, 2002

  Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express congratulations to 
a former colleague, Congressman Bud Shuster of Pennsylvania, for an 
honor he recently received.
  Earlier this week, Bud Shuster was named the ``Transportation Person 
of the Century'' by the Associated Pennsylvania Constructors (APC) in 
honor of the tremendous contributions he has made to the nation's 
transportation and infrastructure systems. It is a tribute to Bud that 
APC rightly recognized the role that he played in ensuring that our 
communities have transportation choices, such as transit, rail systems, 
pedestrian walkways, Amtrak, and bike paths.
  Bud Shuster spent his career building America. Bud served in the 
House of Representatives for 28 years, six of those as Chairman of the 
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the largest and most 
productive committee in Congress. His perseverance, patience and 
willingness to find common ground made him one of the greatest 
committee chairmen we have seen in recent years in the House. His 
extraordinary achievements as Chairman speak for themselves, and he has 
the respect of his former colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
  Part of the joy of working on the Transportation and Infrastructure 
Committee is the way in which we work together to develop bipartisan 
bills. As a committee, we worked extraordinarily well over the six 
years of Bud's leadership. I had the pleasure of working with him on 
many major pieces of legislation to improve the nation's transportation 
and infrastructure systems, including TEA-21 and AIR-21. Throughout his 
service on the Transportation Committee, Bud Shuster demonstrated 
effective bipartisan leadership in showing that transportation, 
infrastructure and environmental programs make a real difference in all 
Americans' lives.
  He retired from this body at the beginning of the 107th Congress, and 
since that time, I have missed him, not only for his policy expertise, 
but also for his friendship. I commend and congratulate Bud Shuster on 
his distinguished career as a public servant.

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