29 Facts About Bill Shuster

William Franklin Shuster is an American politician and lobbyist who served as the US representative for from 2001 to 2019.

Bill Shuster is a member of the Republican Party, and is a son of former Congressman Bud Shuster.

In January 2018, Bill Shuster announced his retirement from Congress at the end of his eighth term, and did not run for re-election in 2018.

Bill Shuster was succeeded as the Representative for PA-9 by fellow Republican Dan Meuser, although redistricting meant his actual district became the 13th which was won by Republican John Joyce, and as House Transportation Committee Chairman by Peter DeFazio.

Bill Shuster graduated from Dickinson College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and in History.

Bill Shuster became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity while at Dickinson.

Bill Shuster then earned a Master of Business Administration from American University.

Bill Shuster owned and operated an automobile dealership in East Freedom, Pennsylvania.

Unlike 2002, Bill Shuster was challenged in the 2004 Republican primary.

Bill Shuster lost only three counties: Clearfield, Cambria, and Fayette.

In 2014, Bill Shuster was in a primary with Bedford County businessman Art Halvorson and Franklin County project manager Travis Schooley.

In 2015, Bill Shuster, who was the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman, said he was dating Shelley Rubino, the vice president of government affairs for Airlines for America, a lobbying group for airlines.

Bill Shuster had other ties to A4A, having hired a former A4A executive onto the aviation subcommittee, and Bill Shuster's chief of staff is married to an executive of A4A.

In 2016, Bill Shuster won reelection in what would later turn out to be his eighth and final full term.

Halvorson, who is considered to be further to the right than Bill Shuster, accepted the Democratic nomination, but vowed to caucus as a conservative Republican if elected to Congress.

Bill Shuster announced in January 2018 that he wouldn't be seeking reelection later that year, and that he thus would be retiring with the end of the 115th Congress in January 2019.

Bill Shuster has been a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee since being elected in 2001 and was selected to be chairman of the committee for the 113th Congress.

Bill Shuster's father had chaired the committee from 1995 to 2001.

In 2013, as a member of the House Armed Services Committee as well, Bill Shuster was an opponent of the $380 million Medium Extended Air Defense System project, which has been deemed too expensive by the Army to complete.

Bill Shuster held a 90.64 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union in 2012.

Bill Shuster opposes abortion, consistently receiving a 0 percent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood and a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee.

Bill Shuster has received the "Spirit of Enterprise Award" from the US Chamber of Commerce and rated highly on the scorecards of the National Tax Limitation Committee and American Farm Bureau Federation.

Bill Shuster was a state co-chair for the 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.

Bill Shuster sponsored The Water Resources and Redevelopment Act of 2013.

Bill Shuster sponsored this bill from his position as the House Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

In January 2014, Bill Shuster created a bipartisan panel of legislators to examine ways to use public-private partnerships to carry out various types of projects, such as water infrastructure, transportation and economic development, according to Ripon Advance.

In 2019, Bill Shuster signed on to the lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs.

Bill Shuster was married for over 20 years and divorced in 2014.

Bill Shuster was linked with Shelley Rubino, the vice president of government affairs for Airlines for America in 2014 and said he was dating her in 2015.