Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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The U.S. House of Representatives today passed 363-64 a comprehensive highway reauthorization bill (H.R.22) that includes measures to renew the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank’s charter, as well as to seek a study on aviation fuel taxes that have been deposited into the Highway Trust Fund.

 


During its consideration yesterday of H.R.22, the House approved <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-11-04/congress-consider-aviation-fuel-fraud-measure" target="_blank">an amendment by Rep. Mike Pompeo</a> (R-Kan.) calling on the Government Accountability Office to study the ramifications of the so-called “fuel-fraud” law requiring non-commercial jet fuel to be taxed at the highway diesel fuel rate and deposited into the Highway Trust Fund until approved aviation vendors demonstrate that the fuel was used for aviation purposes.&nbsp;Aviation vendors are able to seek refunds once they demonstrate that the fuel was intended for aviation, but no such refund mechanism is available for the end user.

 


NATA, which has strongly backed the amendment, said the law is “depriving the Airport and Airways Trust Fund of much needed funding,” and added the “archaic and overly bureaucratic refund mechanism” is seldom used.

 


As for Ex-Im, the Senate added a measure to H.R.22 last summer to renew the Ex-Im charter before sending the comprehensive highway reauthorization bill to the House for consideration. Yesterday House Republicans attempted to scale back the Ex-Im measure in H.R.22 through a series of measures that would restrict the bank’s activities. All 10 of those amendments were rejected. “This moves Ex-Im reauthorization and reform one step closer to reality, and sends a clear signal to the conference committee that any further changes to Ex-Im would be undermining the will of the super majority in both chambers,” said the Exporters For Ex-Im Coalition.

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