WASHINGTON — Four nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board appeared in front of a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday, bringing the board one step closer to conducting new business after it’s been without a quorum for six months.

Randall Jones, a resident of Guntersville, answered questions from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee alongside nominees Mitch Graves and Jeff Hagood of Tennessee and Arthur Graham of Florida.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced Jones, saying his “strong background in business and civil service sets him up to be a valuable board member of the TVA.”

Jones, an insurance agent, serves on the Guntersville Electric Board and the Jacksonville State University Board of Directors. He hopes to use his rural community roots to inform how t

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