Scott Klug: “Mr. Chairman, I just want to make two points to respond to the articulate argument of the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr.…”

“Mr. Chairman, I just want to make two points to respond to the articulate argument of the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Wamp], in defense to TVA. First and foremost, one of the programs we are talking about today is additional economic development money, aside from the water development projects the gentleman talks about. As he knows, and I know all too well, given the vote on the last amendment, the region in Tennessee finds itself not only available for the normal economic development money that a county in Wisconsin or a county in Ohio may be eligible for, but now for Appalachian Regional Commission money as well, and now finally Tennessee Valley Authority money. So now we have got counties in this region of the country that are eligible for three times as much funding as your counties back in Ohio or mine in Wisconsin or those in Colorado or Minnesota, or whatever the case might be. Second, I would have loved to have crafted an amendment much differently than the one we have in front of us, but the fundamental point is anybody in this institution understands you cannot legislate on an appropriations bill.”