Bud Shuster: “First, to the gentlewoman's motion: First of all, everybody should know that the President already has the authority to…”

“First, to the gentlewoman's motion: First of all, everybody should know that the President already has the authority to waive the cost-share, so this is unnecessary for us to pass it. I want to thank all the committee staff, all the staff, for their hard work on this bipartisan bill: full committee staff, my personal staff, aviation staff, economic development staff, and, of course, the legislative counsels. There is one particular former staffer I want to thank, Matt Sturges, who was with the committee for 5\1/2\ years, the staff director, just went down to be the Deputy Administrator at FRA. He worked tirelessly for the past couple of years on this FAA bill. Again, I thank the following staff. Our full committee staff, including Chris Vieson, Geoff Gosselin, Fred Miller, Clare Doherty, Kathy Loden, Collin McCune, Hannah Matesic, Brittany Smith, Tracy Mosebey, Justin Harclerode, Jeff Urbanchuk, Andrew Wargofchik, Eric Burgeson. Our Aviation Subcommittee staff: Holly Woodruff Lyons, Naveen Rao, Hunter Presti, Max Rosen, Cameron Humphrey. Our Economic Development Subcommittee staff: Johanna Hardy, Pam Williams, Hannah Noyes. Our Legislative Counsels: Tom Dillon, Rosemary Gallagher, Karen Anderson, Stephen Hagenbuch. Finally, I want to thank a few staff who have recently moved on, but were instrumental in this process: Matt Sturges, Simone Perez, Keith Hall, and Curt Haensel with Legislative Counsel. Mr.…”