Infrastructure

The House Ways and Means Committee plans to vote on a bill Thursday that would transfer almost $11 billion to the Highway Trust Fund to keep it solvent through May 31, 2015.

New York MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast plans to visit congressional leaders in Washington after talks with Long Island Rail Road unions settled nothing.

Congress must quickly fix the impending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund without waiting for an executive order, President Obama said.

President Obama's warning that federal transportation funding will dry up is a scare tactic aimed at raising taxes, a conservative group said.

President Obama challenged Congress Tuesday on its inability to resolve the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sees public-private partnerships as a potential funding source for water infrastructure projects.

Many highly-rated sewer utility credits can weather federal consent decrees that mandate substantial upgrades with proper management and planning for the increased costs, Moody's Investors Service concludes in a new report.

Nationwide poll finds most Americans would support a higher gas tax if revenues are dedicated to highway and transit projects.

The Head of the Senate Finance Committee will work with chairman of House Ways and Means for a quick, temporary fix to the fast-depleting Federal Highway Trust Fund.

Sen. Barbara Boxer supports a proposal for a six-month patch to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through 2014.

The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill that would extend the authority to spend from the Highway Trust Fund through the end of the calendar year.

Social impact bond legislation in Congress authorizes the creation of P3s that would benefit by achieving socially desirable outcomes.

Watchdog group advises lawmakers to avoid bookkeeping gimmicks in resolving the multi-billion shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

Senators Chris Murphy and Bob Corker have joined forces in a push for higher federal gas taxes to fund highway projects.

Airports want to double the federal passenger facility fee of $4.50 per head, but airlines see no need for the increase.

While states' credit ratings haven't been affected much by climate-related issues, primarily because the federal government has provided aid for those hit by disasters, that assistance may not always be available, a Standard and Poor's official said Tuesday.

Moody's Investors Service has lowered its ratings on $8.5 billion of state and transit agency stand-alone grant anticipation revenue vehicle bonds supported by dwindling revenues from the Highway Trust Fund.

Foreign equity investment interest in U.S. public-private partnerships at all-time level, a House P3 panel was told.

President Obama's four-year, $302 billion transportation funding bill, introduced in the House by a bipartisan pair of representatives, is not expected to gain traction in the Republican-controlled chamber.

More than 50% of Americans would support an increase in the federal gasoline tax if the revenues are dedicated to highways and mass transit, AAA survey says.