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The board has added Alexander Chilton, Michael Craft, Pamela Frederick, Wendell Gaertner, and Christopher Kendall, as well as the returning Ernesto Lanza as chief regulatory and policy officer.

Brandon Comer and his firm Comer Capital Group are in talks to settle the Securities and Exchange Commission charges against them ahead of a pretrial conference Nov. 17.

The House and Senate remain at least $120 billion apart on fiscal 2024 spending levels.

During its quarterly board meeting, the MSRB approved its controversial one-minute trade reporting window and approved a $47 million budget for FY 2024.

The action does not have immediate implications for municipal issuers but could give the muni market a sense of how the SEC is beginning to think about cybersecurity risks.

A Senate Budget Committee hearing Wednesday examined the fiscal consequences of preparing infrastructure for climate change.

The organization's first ever recommended best practices for State Revolving Funds will be available for public comment through Sept. 30.

The puzzling accounting discrepancy, which dates to 2005, threatened to lead to the rescission of $3.5 billion of contract authority for state departments of transportation.

New Jersey sued the federal government to block a plan to charge drivers entering midtown Manhattan, claiming federal regulatory approval was ill-considered.

The bill will move onto the Senate in hopes of reaching President Biden's desk before the current Federal Aviation Administration authorization expires on Sept. 30.