{"59037":{"#nid":"59037","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Marilyn Brown\u0027s Confirmation Hearing for TVA Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy Professor Marilyn Brown\u0027s confirmation hearing for the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors occurred February 9, in the midst of the snow event that shut down the Federal government.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPresident Obama announced his intent to nomiate Brown for a position on the TVA board. (Read more in the December Ivan Allen College Newsletter - link below).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBrown\u0027s statement begins about two thirds of the way through the video which also includes  statements and discussion of climate change and air quality issues by U.S. Senators Boxer, Alexander, Barrasso, and Whitehouse and by Brown\u0027s co-nominees Bill Sansom--a businessman, Neil McBride--public rights lawyer, and Barbara Haskew--an economist and past-Provost of Middle Tennessee State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy Professor Marilyn Brown\u0027s confirmation hearing for the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors occurred February 9, in the midst of the snow event that shut down the Federal government.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Watch Hearing Video"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-02-12 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:50","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/newsletters\/12\/2009","title":"About Brown\u0027s Nomination"},{"url":"http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.LiveStream\u0026Hearing_id=96a000a4-802a-23ad-45c5-e31a88124b41","title":"Brown Confirmation Video"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1547","name":"Brown"},{"id":"9991","name":"confirmation hearing"},{"id":"346","name":"congress"},{"id":"9992","name":"congressional hearing"},{"id":"9990","name":"TVA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}