Burchett introduces bill to require open meetings of TVA board
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, has introduced legislation to require TVA board meetings to be open to the public. U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R- Knoxville, introduced legislation that would require that TVA's board meetings, and meetings of board subcommittees, be open to the public. The current law governing the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was created by Congress in 1933, requires it to have four meetings a year. But there is no provision requiring that all of its meetings be open to the public, nor that minutes of meetings be publicly available. Burchett's legislation would require the board and subcommittees of the board to hold their [...]