Infrastructure

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.

Rep. Peter DeFazio wants to build highways with a wholesale tax on oil and repeal the federal gasoline tax.

President Obama signed into law Tuesday a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill that funds 34 port, inland waterway, and flood control projects.

Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray says closing corporate tax loopholes would pay for federal transportation funding needed to avoid a shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

House GOP leaders push ahead with a plan to fund highway projects for a year with savings realized by limited Saturday mail deliveries.

New study links increased public corruption to high levels of state expenditures on highways and other construction projects.

The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday that they will hold a series of tax reform hearings this summer and will continue to look for innovative ways to fix the Highway Trust Fund other than using revenues from repatriation.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a $51 billion transportation spending measure for fiscal 2015, as a subcommittee chair warned about the pending insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund.

The proposed EPA rule to reduce carbon emissions could negatively pressure issuers' credit ratings, some analysts said in preliminary comments this week.

Recent improvements in airline profits are credit positive for airport bonds and may lead to increased capital investments, Well Fargo says.