Sat, Mar 03, 2012
Nearly 200 Members Sign Bipartisan Letter To President
Obama
In a show of strong opposition to aviation user fees, 195
members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a bipartisan
letter to President Obama Thursday expressing contempt toward an
Administration budget proposal that would impose a $100 per flight
fee on general and commercial aviation.
Chairman Tom Petri (R-WI) and Ranking Member Jerry Costello
(D-IL) of the Aviation Subcommittee, along with Representatives Sam
Graves (R-MO) and John Barrow (D-GA), co-chairs of the House
General Aviation Caucus, authored the letter that described the
devastating impact user fees would have on general aviation and
manufacturing.
The letter, for which GAMA and its member companies played an
active role in building support, states, “Aviation user fees
have been proposed several times by different Administrations, both
Republican and Democrat. Congress has repeatedly and overwhelmingly
rejected them.”
“A huge coalition of 195 members of the House, that
includes the bipartisan leadership of the transportation
authorization and appropriations committees, are sending the Obama
Administration a clear message that user fees are not an
option,” said GAMA President and CEO, Pete Bunce. “We
are grateful for the leadership provided by the House Aviation
Subcommittee and the House General Aviation Caucus. They have been
key in uniting Congress against this ill-conceived proposal.
User fees raise safety concerns, place undue burdens on the general
aviation industry, and require the creation of a costly new federal
collection bureaucracy.”
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