Bud Shuster: “It is my great pleasure and honor to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo), my friend and the…”

“It is my great pleasure and honor to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo), my friend and the chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, who has been a tireless advocate for aviation safety efficiency, but who has also been a great partner on the committee to me and to the other members of the committee. Also, I want to mention that--and I think this is accurate--he is the only Member of Congress who has a CDL, commercial driver's license, so he is in a very unique position to not only know and advocate for aviation, but also, on the ground, he knows how commerce moves. Mr. LoBIONDO. Mr. Chairman, I thank Chairman Shuster for yielding. I rise in very strong support of H.R. 4, the reauthorization bill. The Subcommittee on Aviation began the reauthorization process over 3 years ago, a very long process. In that time, we have held a series of roundtables and hearings on the state of the FAA's certification and safety processes, regulatory efforts, airport grant programs, customer service, and the air traffic control system. The subcommittee also had more than 200 stakeholder meetings in order to gather feedback and hear from various constituencies to understand what would work in the real world--not what 535 Members of Congress may think, but to get input from the people who have to make it work every day.…”