John Hope Bryant: “Mr. Speaker, at the request, as has been said, of our former colleague and the very distinguished Governor of Tennessee…”

“Mr. Speaker, at the request, as has been said, of our former colleague and the very distinguished Governor of Tennessee, Don Sundquist, and also the very distinguished Governor of the State of Mississippi, Kirk Fordice, I, along with the gentleman from Mississippi, Mr. Roger Wicker, introduced House Joint Resolution 95, which would give congressional consent to an interstate compact establishing the Chickasaw Trail Economic Development Authority. Under this compact, the Chickasaw Authority would conduct a study to determine the feasibility of establishing an industrial park which would lie both in Fayette County, Tennessee, and Marshall County, Mississippi. Should the authority issue a favorable report, the States would then negotiate a new compact implementing the details needed to establish a 4,000 to 5,000-acre industrial park. These large tracts of land would come complete with utilities and infrastructure needed to attract and support the more sophisticated high-technology industry for which the two States already compete.”