Regulations and Government
Facing GA Backlash, Shuster Drops Advisory Council Measure
The House Rules Committee set the parameters for a vote on FAA reauthorization legislation.

After an outpouring of opposition from general aviation groups, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) revised a measure that would have created an Aerospace Management Advisory Council to steer the air traffic control system within the FAA. The measure was a compromise from the more sweeping Shuster proposal to carve the ATC system out of the FAA altogether. But it drew alarm from general aviation groups, many of which issued calls to their members to immediately voice their objections to lawmakers.


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