Infrastructure

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said he hopes Congress and the Obama administration can work in a bipartisan way to authorize qualified public infrastructure bonds or another type of bond program.

An Oregon Democratic congressman wants to raise the federal gas tax to generate $210 billion of new revenue for roads, bridges, and transit.

Transit projects in 13 states in line for $3.2 billion of federal grants in President Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2016.

The Internal Revenue Service is seeking applications from issuers for unused volume cap of new clean renewable energy bonds.

Senate public works panel will continue development of multiyear transportation bill without proposed tax on corporate overseas profits.

President Obama's fiscal 2016 budget includes several bond proposals that were also in the budget he released last year.

President Obama's fiscal 2016 budget, unveiled Monday, includes several new bond proposals and a number of bond-related proposals that have been in past budgets.

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has reintroduced legislation that would prevent the federal government from providing assistance to any state or local government, including loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit, and grants. It would, of course, have exceptions for responses to disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

New study recommends adding a separate account within the Highway Trust Fund for multimodal transportation infrastructure projects.

Two senators have proposed a corporate tax repatriation plan to pump billions of dollars of new revenue into the Highway Trust Fund.

President Obama plans to propose a revised version of last year's $302 billion, 4-year transportation bill.

Reps. John Duncan, R-Tenn., and Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., have once again sponsored legislation to exempt water and sewer private-activity bonds from state volume caps.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposes a $1 trillion transportation bill that would put $75 billion a year into the Highway Trust Fund.

A major Northeast winter storm caused issuers to postpone about $1.7 billion of bond sales , including a $1 billion Pennsylvania GO offering.

New Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan included funding for the state's two light rail P3 projects in his fiscal 2015 budget.

A congressional bipartisan duo filed a bill to capitalize a $50 billion infrastructure bank with 50-year taxable bonds bearing 1% interest.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is developing legislation that would dedicate revenues from corporate tax reform to federal highway funding.

The All Aboard Florida private passenger train project has received a $1.75 billion federal private activity bond allocation along with conditions that impose a tight timeframe to issue the debt..

President Obama called for bipartisan support for a multiyear transportation funding bill without providing specifics on pay for it.

Seattle's Sound Transit gets a $1.3 billion federal loan to revive voter-approved $4 billion light rail project stalled by revenue drop.