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Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Dan Coats, R-Ind., are urging President Obama and congressional leaders to agree to include in their debt-reduction plan an agreement to enact comprehensive tax-reform legislation before the end of the year.
July 6 -
Leaders of the House and Senate transportation committees are preparing two significantly different bills to reauthorize highway and transit programs after the current law expires on Sept. 30.
July 6 - Washington
Efforts to extend and expand stimulus law provisions for qualified zone academy bonds and qualified school construction bonds would get a boost under a bill recently introduced by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
July 6
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Jessica Giroux, formerly with the office of New York state Sen. James Alesi, has joined the Bond Dealers of America as a vice president.
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California Treasurer Bill Lockyer has waded into the issue of tax compliance by conduit tax-exempt bond issuers.
July 5 - Washington
Unregistered municipal advisers will be referred to regulators for investigation and possible disciplinary action, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board warned Tuesday.
July 5 -
WASHINGTON - Conduit issuers and borrowers are stepping up their efforts to counter calls in Washington for the elimination of tax-exemption for municipal bonds.
July 1 - California
SAN FRANCISCO - The law firm Polsinelli Shughart has acquired Quateman LLP, California's biggest women-owned municipal bond counsel firm.
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WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission may appeal a recent federal court decision tossing out an auction-rate securities case the agency brought against Memphis-based Morgan Keegan & Co.
June 30 -
SAN FRANCISCO — Washington plans to reimpose tolls on the busy Seattle-area State Route 520 floating bridge to back almost $2 billion of bonds that will be issued to finance its replacement.
June 30
