Bill Shuster

William " Bill" Shuster ( born January 10, 1961 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) is an American politician. Since 2001 he represents the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bill Shuster is the son of former Congressman Bud Shuster. He attended Everett High School and then studied until 1983 at Dickinson College in Carlisle and then at the American University in Washington DC Professionally, he was then car dealers and representatives of a tire company. Politically, he was like his father, a member of the Republican Party.

Following the resignation of his father as a deputy Bill Shuster was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the ninth seat of Pennsylvania, where he took up his new mandate on 15 May 2001. After five previous elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. In his previous term as congressman fell among other things, the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan. Shuster is a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in five sub-committees. He is also a seven Congressional Caucuses. It consists, among others, for stronger border controls with the help of the National Guard in order to discourage illegal immigration to the United States.

Shuster is married and lives in Hollidaysburg private.