shuster on behalf of myself and mr. meehan my colleagues from pennsylvania, a common sense amendment this amendment that we will be filing does two very simple things. it states the f.a.a. should not use a one size fits all approach when considering deregulations. it also requires the f.a.a. to take into consideration the cost it is imposing on the private sector when issuing new regulations this amendment simply codifies some -- or much of an executive order issued by poth because ma on january 18 of this year. quoting from his -- from the president's executive order, the president said, our regulatory system, quote, must be based on the best available science, it must allow for public participation and an open exchange of ideas and promote predictability and reduce uncertainty. it must identify and use the most innovative an least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory ends and take into accounts benefits and costs both quantitative and qualitative. in addition, f.a.a. administrator rab dibabbitt stated it can make

now 26, shuster of which was just 16. >> for four years straight i had no time to see friends and have fun. i really worked. >> but the hard work was worth it. her career went ballistic. she became the model of choice for labels like vehrs taji and york. -- versace and oior. >> i love carolina. she is a great woman. >> the top model progressed into stardom. but she remains a woman with your feet firmly on the ground. >> the more you are around beautiful things and people say oh, my god, you're the best, it is very easy to forget and lose touch of real things. i think is very important. i love talking to people on the street, people i do not know that come up to me and to maybe do not know who i am and i can talk to them and they feel so happy i am talking to them. i do not think of myself as more than them. >> she can now select her jobs and less can be more. her manager says the only shows he will consider are ones that are useful to your career. -- her career. >> she no longer requires an introduction. everyone knows her. when you promote a model, you try to get as many shows as poss

simon, shuster & warner books. simon & shuster ended up with the contract. so it was a four-year project. >> and you start and you acknowledge in the back, there's a young lady -- i don't know if she's young, but a woman at the kato institute, a lynn totalitarian group, that played a role in this. >> anna mcal center -- mcallister. she was very important in this. becae it s her job to look at these people as people. she's a libertarian. she's no longer at the kato institute. -- at the cato institute. but she had health issues and wasn't able to continue on the project, but she came to me with the broad idea -- i turn td into this narrative of these five figures -- but she was the one that saw that this was fresh territory and would make an interesting story. >> where do you come from originally? >> i come from los angeles. outside los angeles. >> where did you grow up? >> in a suburb of los angeles lled palos verde. i wept to school at u.c. berkeley. i worke on the "daily cal" there, and i came to washington right after graduation. >> what about your own fam

shuster of pennsylvania. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 189, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. shuster, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. shuster: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise to offer an amendment and this amendment is composed two of parts. both of which deal with making improvements to the process of issuing federal aviation administration regulations. the amendment is an effort to improve rule making at the f.a.a. by requiring the agency to meet fundamental rule making principles. directing the f.a.a. to meet these standards will ensure that regulations protect the critical importance of aviation safety while also considering issues of economic competitiveness. the first part is one size does not fit all part of the amendment, requires the f.a.a. to recognize that the united states aviation industry is composed of a variety of different segments with different operating characters. therefore been -- characteristics

shuster as well. we're going to have to consider new ideas to be able to help institute this public-private partnership that we all know needs to be a part of this discussion. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 662 which should be really the building block of our six-year re-authorization, that deserves bipartisan support of this congress and the american people. mr. rahall, i appreciate all of the efforts you've done so far. i know you're very committed to getting this done and i look forward to all of the hard work in your new leadership, as well as also our ranking member, mr. defazio. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from florida. mr. mica: at this time i have no further speakers but i'll continue to yield to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. mr. mica: i mean reserve to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from west virgini

chairman shuster push the envelope. he admitted the house rules so that that drove the appropriate crazy. at the time it was really good. in that the outlays, the appropriators were always constrained to appropriate to the level and the authorization of the t-21 bill. and i continued through the next bill, safetea-lu. safetea-lu in my opinion was not a good piece of legislation. we delivered it two years late. and we got into a little dust up with president bush. is only and he indicated that because of the declining revenues in the trust fund that he started the bidding on the six-year bill at $256 billion which flew in the face of the d.o.t.'s estimates that we needed 400 some billion dollars to get the job done and have an effective highway program and transportation program in the united states. after two years of ping pong it back and forth, we finally got up to about 300 billion, woefully inadequate for the times, two years late as i indicated. and sadly it became the poster child for what is wrong with washington

bud shuster, man e he schooled me. every billion dollars we spend creates 47 and a half thousand jobs from the people who do the construction to run the trains, the asphalt guys, the construction guys and we need jobs. unemployment is still hovering around 9%. so you have to talk about being an investment. there's no fairer way to fund something than we fund transportation. it's a user fee. if you use it, you pay for it. if you don't use it, you don't pay for it. so even the knuckle draggers who have been elected in this last election that sort of wander in and say we hate taxes, we're not going to raise taxes, we're not going to do. i don't know how we're going to function as a government unless we spend something. but at the end of the day, this is fair. and we're not

also last week, i welcome chairman mica, subcommittee chairman shuster, and the transportation and infrastructure committee to scranton for a listening session on the future of our roads and infrastructure. the listening session helped me and other members of the committee gain a greater level of insight from local leaders with expertise and real world experience in transportation and infrastructure policy. during the listening session we spoke about job creation. heard some examples of burdensome regulation. listened to ideas about cost-effective maintenance plans, and were briefed on public-private partnerships as new ways to build and repair pennsylvania's roads and bridges. madam speaker, the challenges we face in our district are great, but they are not unique. my friends and neighbors in pennsylvania's 11th congressional district are hardworking people, and i will continue to bring their voices to washington throughout the 112th congress. finally, madam speaker, in closing, i would like to note that we are all here today free to talk and debate because of the brave men and women serving in