John Thune: “I just want to credit the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster) for his tireless efforts to make this bill become a…”

“I just want to credit the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster) for his tireless efforts to make this bill become a reality that restores honesty and integrity to the aviation trust fund and goes a long ways towards seeing that the aviation taxes that are paid by passengers and airlines and general aviation users on tickets and fuel and cargo are actually being used to improve airport capacity and safety. This has been a long time coming and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster) has worked very, very hard to ensure that we have unlocked this trust fund and this is going to be a wonderful thing for many of the airports across this country; and certainly in my State of South Dakota a lot of the rural areas are going to be very well served by this legislation. I encourage its passage.”