The top House Republican on highway, transit, aviation and water issues, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, says he will retire from the chamber in 2019, after his current term ends.
Shuster’s decision, announced on Jan. 2, wasn’t a surprise, because he will hit the GOP’s six-year limit as a committee chair at the end of the current Congress. The western Pennsylvanian said that in his last year in office, he will concentrate on helping to move infrastructure legislation, something that President Trump has promised but has yet to unveil.