
Sarah Wynn covers securities and infrastructure for the Washington bureau.
Sarah Wynn covers securities and infrastructure for the Washington bureau.
A group of GOP senators is working to put together a more traditional infrastructure bill that would range from $600 to $800 billion dollars.
His departure comes as lawmakers are working quickly to put together an infrastructure bill, with hopes of including key municipal bond provisions.
A VMT fee was also the consensus way to pay for infrastructure during a Senate EPW Committee hearing on Wednesday.
A case settled this week was the first brought in decades by FINRA for a rule violation on quotations.
The agenda includes discussion of possible changes to MSRB Rule G-10, on investor and municipal advisory client education and protection.
Instead of trying to spend more within traditional programs, the federal government should design more modern policy, Brookings experts said.
If an infrastructure bill does go through a partisan route, municipal bonds’ future could be very fluid.
Over the weekend, prominent senators criticized President Biden's infrastructure plan, with some more moderate senators' votes hanging in the balance.
Recent one-time funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and higher-than-projected revenues for many states are in many cases being put into infrastructure.
Municipal bond provisions were not mentioned, but stakeholders expect those details to be hashed out in what is likely to be a protracted battle in Congress.