Tom Foley attends the dedication of the Thomas S. Foley and Walter F. Horan Plaza at the Fox Theater in October 2013. State lawmakers argued this week how much of U.S. 395 should be named for Foley, who helped secure federal funding for its reconstruction during his time in Washington, D.C. When I was a much younger reporter for The Spokesman-Review in the early 1980s, I covered the nuclear fiasco that was the Washington Public Power Supply System.