Sarah Wynn

During the kickoff for the United for Infrastructure week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said he supported a one -year extension of current federal surface transportation funding.

The action shows the SEC's focus on the often risky charter school sector.

Sources say lawmakers want to know why the Municipal Liquidity Facility has only been used by two issuers.

Guam Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero told lawmakers she wants the island territory to be eligible for the Fed’s Municipal Liquidity Facility.

Currently, the maximum maturity period for bonds under the MLF is 36 months, up from 24 months when the program was first created in April.

Groups say a year-long extension of the current surface transportation law would bolster market certainty in 2021.

Regulators found Stifel effected 56 pairs of pre-arranged transactions and the firm did not have a supervisory system reasonably designed to catch that activity.

Both the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Road and Transportation Builders Association among other groups plan to ask Congress to extend existing highway funding for a year.

Adie Tomer, a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, talks with Sarah Wynn on the hopes for a future infrastructure bill and what form it could take before and after the November elections. (19 minutes)

Without how long the pandemic will last, but knowing revenues will fall, county officials are forced to figure out ways to save money.