Infrastructure

The Senate passed a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill Thursday by 91-7, two days after the House approved it.

Southwest Airlines' newfound freedom to begin serving long-haul destinations from Dallas Love Field Airport in October poses risks for smaller airports left behind, Fitch Ratings warns.

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joins infrastructure investor Meridiam North America as senior advisor.

The House Appropriations Committee approved a 2015 transportation budget that keeps federal highway funding at 2014 levels.

Federal, state and local elected officials joined LA Metro in announcing the receipt of a $1.25 billion full funding grant agreement from the Federal Transit Administration for its Purple Line subway extension.

The House passed a $12.3 billion water infrastructure bill Tuesday that funds 34 port, inland waterway, and dam projects.

Airport infrastructure public-private partnerships are often stymied by a web of competing local interests, aviation advocates told a House P3 panel.

President Obama used his weekly address to criticize House Republicans for chopping the TIGER grant program to $100 million in 2015.

Kent Hiteshew, the director of the Treasury Department's new office of state and local finance, described the office's initial areas of focus and asked municipal government finance officials to provide input about how the office could be helpful.

Congress is expected to pass a compromise water infrastructure bill this week that funds 34 projects totaling $12 billion.

Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee gave its unanimous approval to six-year bill authorizing $242 billion of federal highway funding.

President Obama pressed Congress to quickly increase spending on transportation infrastructure in a speech Wednesday at a bridge project work site.

Identical bills recently introduced in the House and the Senate would create a federal "Green Bank" that would be capitalized by bonds issued by the Treasury Department and would provide loans and other types of financing support for clean-energy and energy-efficiency projects.

The draft transportation bill released by a key Senate committee falls far short of funding needs by proposing only $242.4 billion for road projects over six years, administration officials and highway industry experts are warning.

The draft transportation bill released late Monday night by a Senate committee calls for $242.4 billion of federal funding for highway projects over six years.

Lawmakers have reconciled differences in House and Senate versions of a water infrastructure bill that would authorize $8 billion of federal funding.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote on a surface transportation reauthorization bill on May 15, committee leaders announced Thursday.

Transportation finance experts expect robust bond financing of new transportation and infrastructure projects in the near future, even though federal policy is making those investments increasingly tricky.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., has announced that she will introduce a multiyear transportation reauthorization bill on Thursday.

Sen. Barbara Boxer said the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will begin work next week on a transportation bill that keeps spending at current levels plus inflation.