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These public finance supporters in both chambers of Congress include Democrats from Massachusetts, Maryland, and Alabama and Republicans from Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas.

Voters will consider bond issues in three states and a number of tax measures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The settlement in which Roosevelt & Cross, Inc. agreed to pay $1 million is part of a now more than two-year crackdown on "flipping" arrangements.

During a Congressional Oversight Commission hearing, the Fed's Kent Hiteshew said the MLF is working as is, despite having made loans to only two issuers.

Biden's economic adviser pointed out that a new study couldn’t compare Biden’s economic plan to Trump’s because the president doesn’t have one.

Kelly Mitchell wants to solidify existing NAST initiatives in the coming year, such as expanding 529 college savings plans.

Billions of public funds have been spent cleaning up the bay, but two lawsuits say those efforts are endangered because the EPA failed to do its job.

Former Rep. Joe Crowley, D- NY., said fellow Democrats need to get on board with using public-private partnerships as a way to pay for infrastructure.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, the Democratic co-chair of the caucus, described the package as “a common-sense framework."

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.

The so-called “skinny bill” proposed by Senate Republicans failed to advance Thursday in a 52 to 47 vote that fell short of the 60-vote supermajority needed to break a filibuster.

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.

The House and Senate have not agreed to any of the 12 spending bills that fund various federal agencies, nor have they agreed on the reauthorization of the Highway Trust Fund.

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.

The paper filing requirement for Form 8038-CP was a particular problem early in the pandemic because IRS paper processing centers were shut down from mid-March until sometime in June.

Briefs from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the passenger railroad argue that private activity bonds for the Florida project were allocated correctly.