...Stevens, would channel the money through the Denali Commission, a state-federal agency patterned after the Appalachian Regional Commission, a road-building authority established to spur development in the nation's 13-state Appalachian area...

...chairman with whom he has served, and Stevens has returned similar compliments. Stevens did not block the Appalachian Regional Commission, which Byrd helped create, from funneling aid to West Virginia, and Byrd reciprocated when Stevens produced...

...Ted Stevens, who created the Denali Commission to improve the infrastructure of rural Alaska, just as the Appalachian Regional Commission does in its 13-state area. The measure would only authorize the program and set a financial cap. If it...