Infrastructure

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.

Former U.S. Representative James Oberstar died at age 79 Saturday, silencing one of Washington's most outspoken advocates of increased transportation and infrastructure investment.

The gas tax would need to be raised to 31 cents from the current 18.3 cents per gallon in 2015 and increased thereafter in order for the Highway Trust Fund to keep up with projected transportation funding needs, without new revenue sources, Fitch Ratings said in a report released Monday.

State transportation departments face a $47 billion cut in federal funding in fiscal 2015 if Congress fails to shore up the Highway Trust Fund.

Approval of a $1.9 billion federal transportation loan for the $5.7 billion Silver Line rail extension to Washington's Dulles Airport is the largest ever awarded.

Tolling and transit advocates praise the $302 billion transportation legislation now in Congress, but others doubt lawmakers will act before the November elections.

President Obama sent to Congress a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation funding bill that ends the prohibition on tolling existing interstate highways.

Re-introducing the Build America Bonds program would once again drive much-needed infrastructure spending and broaden the buyer base to non-traditional taxable investors, while at the same time providing a complementary alternative to the currently challenged landscape of the traditional tax-exempt market.

Wells Fargo links limited supply of transportation infrastructure bonds to uncertainty over federal funding.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority accepted the first segment of the $5.7 billion Silver Line train extension to Dulles Airport from the contractor.