WASHINGTON (Story courtesy of WVLT) – A Senate committee hearing has been scheduled for four of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors.
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is slated to hold the hearing on Wednesday, October 22.
After President Trump returned to office to begin his second term earlier this year, he fired three TVA board members: Michelle Moore and Joe H. Ritch in April and Beth P. Geer in June.
After Moore and Ritch were fired, TVA’s board was left without a quorum and only three members: Bill Renick, who serves as chairman, Bobby Klein and Wade White.
According to the TVA Bylaws, the board can continue operations that were established while TVA had a quorum, but it does not have the “authority to direct [TVA] into new areas of activity, to embark on new programs, or to change the Corporation’s existing direction.”
In July, Trump nominated five people to serve on the board. The hearing, which is set for Oct. 22 at 10 a.m., will consider four of the nominees: Mitch Graves, Randall Jones, Arthur Graham and Jeff Hagood. The fifth nominee, Lee Beaman, was not named in the committee’s announcement.
If the committee gives a favorable recommendation for the nominees, it will be up to the full Senate to vote on them.
