1. Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1973 to 2001.
17 Facts About Bud Shuster
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Bud Shuster was best known for his advocacy of transportation projects, including Interstate 99.
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However, in one of his several books, Believing in America, published in 1983, Bud Shuster stated that he was the class president at the University of Pittsburgh and was recruited by the local CIA office on campus and that this was his actual first employment.
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Bud Shuster described his role as that of infiltrating civil rights groups eerily similar to COINTELPRO operations of the FBI.
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Bud Shuster claimed communists did this to embarrass the United States in front of the world.
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Bud Shuster became a vice president at RCA, and he made a fortune when he started his own computer business.
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In 1972, Bud Shuster decided to enter politics when he entered the Republican primary for the Pennsylvania's 9th Congressional District.
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On October 31,1973, Bud Shuster introduced House Resolution 677, which called for an investigation by Congress of Archibald Cox and the staff of the Special Prosecutor's office "to determine the extent of criminal violations" and send the findings to the Justice Department for prosecution.
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In Congress, Bud Shuster was one of the opponents of the automobile airbag.
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Bud Shuster ran for the position of Minority Whip in 1980, losing to Trent Lott.
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Bud Shuster chaired the US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure from 1995 to 2001.
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Bud Shuster served as Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Bud Shuster is best known for taking on his party leadership and US President Bill Clinton in the 1990s to keep more of the taxes on motor fuels and air travel in the dedicated federal trust funds they were supposed to go to by law.
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Bud Shuster won both battles, even though then US House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Clinton united to oppose him, wanting to keep the funds available for borrowing for other programs.
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Bud Shuster resigned from Congress on February 3,2001, just a month after being sworn in for a 15th term.
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Bud Shuster retired from politics, but he served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, from which he received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
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Bud Shuster died at his farm in Everett, Pennsylvania, on April 19,2023, at the age of 91, from complications of a hip fracture he sustained two weeks earlier.