Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110927:08:37:00
And making it happen would make some jobs. so the government intervened. first in providing electricity to rural places and later in providing phone service. when president roosevelt acted in the '30s we were in the middle of the great depression. the nation was flat broke with bread lines and shantytowns and hobos on trains crossing the country for work. in the darkest hour when things were as tough as they'd ever been, the rural electrification administration worked. the chair of the appropriations committee grew up in our nation's poorest state in those tough times. congressman witten asked...