Infrastructure

Bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators have joined 50 House members to support a proposed national infrastructure bank funded with $50 billion of 1% bonds.

The finance team for Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport had to outwit the airlines and bypass the public to get the project, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, off the ground.

DOT expects the main federal highway infrastructure fund to run dry in August and post a $100 million deficit before the end of the fiscal year.

Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have established a special bipartisan panel to promote the use of public-private partnerships across all modes of transportation, economic development, public buildings and water infrastructure

Senate Banking Committee chairman warns that Congress must act to protect the main source of federal transportation funding before it dries up.

The nation's governors support maintaining the tax exemption for municipal bonds, though tax reform appears to be unlikely this year, leaders of the National Governors Association said Wednesday.

A state court ruling stopping California from selling $8 billion of bonds for high-speed rail could result in a cutoff of billion in federal matching funds as well.

Metro-North estimated damage from the deadly commuter train derailment in the Bronx at more than $9 million, said a preliminary report from a federal agency.

Six firms have responded to Indiana's request for qualifications to partner with the state for the $1.3 billion Illiana Corridor toll road connecting Indiana and Illinois, officials said Tuesday.