Caitlin Devitt has covered the municipal bond market since 2008. She began her journalism career at the Herald Newspapers on the South Side of Chicago, starting as a reporter and rising to Managing Editor. While at The Bond Buyer, she covered the Detroit bankruptcy among other Midwest-based stories. Devitt joined Debtwire Municipals in 2016, where she covered the high-yield municipal bond market for five years, before returning to the Bond Buyer as Senior Infrastructure Reporter. She lives in Chicago with her family.
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The government funding measure now heads to the Senate where it needs Democratic support to pass.
March 12 -
The BDA met last week ahead of the House Ways and Means launching talks on what the reconciliation tax package may include.
March 11 -
In 2017, the BDA hired a lobbying firm as Congress wrote a tax reform bill. This time, the group opted for a strategic communications firm.
March 10 -
A united Republican vote for the continuing resolution could indicate the GOP's ability to gather support for the more complex reconciliation bill.
March 10 -
New York Judge Andrew Borrok said a ruling on the summary judgments could come by late April after "a lot of sitting and writing and thinking."
March 5 -
Senate GOP leaders also aim to make the TCJA tax cuts permanent, which would raise the costs of tax reform unless a new scoring method is adopted.
March 5 -
The Trump administration wants to shed federal office space, and bonds backed by those leases are feeling the heat.
March 3 -
It marks a major step forward for the long-stalled high-speed train project between Dallas and Houston.
February 27 -
The Senate hearing comes as lawmakers start to shape the next surface transportation bill.
February 27 -
The House now needs to negotiate a final budget resolution with the Senate, whose leaders have said they want to make the TCJA permanent.
February 26