Multi-State border authority proposed

“A Southwest border regional authority to coordinate economic development efforts among four states would be created under legislation recently introduced in Congress by U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas. The Southwest Regional Border Authority would be a mechanism for border areas to receive federal funding for economic development plants, Reyes said in a news release. The joint federal-state agency would be modeled after other economic development commissions, including the Appalachian Regional Commission. The Southwest authority would be led by a federal representative and the governors of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.”