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Congress Sends Another Strong Message To White House On User Fees

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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