Shuster to retire from Congress

Shuster to retire from Congress

By TANYA SNYDER
01/02/2018 03:21 PM EST

House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster announced Tuesday that he’s stepping down at the end of his term.

“Rather than focusing on a re-election campaign, I thought it wiser to spend my last year as Chairman focusing 100 percent on working with President [Donald] Trump and my Republican and Democratic colleagues in both Chambers to pass a much needed infrastructure bill to rebuild America,” Shuster (R-Pa.) said in a statement posted by his personal office.

Shuster survived a closer-than-expected primary in 2016 by political novice Art Halvorson.

There has been widespread speculation that this would be Shuster’s last year in Congress since he is term-limited out of the Transportation Committee chairmanship after three terms.

Shuster and Trump met last month, and both parties were surprisingly tight-lipped afterward about what was discussed.

News of Shuster’s retirement was first reported in the Washington Examiner.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...ongress-320135

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