Infrastructure

Adovactes are hopeful a provision cutting in half the required PAB-financing for low-income housing projects will be in the upcoming reconciliation package.

The House's powerful speaker will need to win the votes of moderates.

Nine mayors from across the country backed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s double-barreled strategy to move infrastructure legislation.

That's not a bad idea despite the crumbling condition of a key stretch of the highway, says NYU Rudin Center Director Mitchell Moss.

California's troubled high-speed rail project was not a priority in the bill the Senate passed Tuesday, amid $66 billion targeted for intercity rail.

The legislation passed the Senate by 69-30 setting the stage for House lawmakers to work on it and for Senate Democrats to weigh a social infrastructure agenda.

Treasury has already halted the sale of state and local securities, known as SLGS.

Rising sea levels could make catastrophic events such as recent subway flooding more intense and frequent in places including New York and Boston.

Michigan is bringing $855 million of state trunk line fund bonds to market Tuesday for road and bridge projects.

That expansion wholly depends on Washington actually bringing back the taxable product and making it permanent, a diminishing scenario in 2021.

Federal Aviation Administration approval of the $2.1 billion transit connector revived heated debate over an undertaking that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has championed.

While the bipartisan deal includes some helpful provisions, it does not contain any of the top priorities of municipal bond market advocates.

The acting New York City Transit president was in line for a board chairmanship had state lawmakers approved Gov. Andrew Cuomo's measure to split the authority's top positions.

Municipal issuers are missing the low-borrowing-cost opportunity to finance repairs and modernize infrastructure, says Merritt Research Services.

A bipartisan group of senators negotiating a broad infrastructure deal has reached accord on a plan, the top Republican negotiator said, and debate could begin in the full chamber as early as Wednesday night.

Out-year deficit borrowing looms after massive federal aid runs out, Chief Financial Officer Robert Foran tells the board.

Whether a BABs-like program could make it into actual law in Washington is still highly uncertain. What is certain: Some form of infrastructure spending is must-pass legislation because federal-aid highway funding is set to expire in October.

The agency must still pay the commonwealth due to 2007 legislation that went sideways.

Wednesday will be the first Senate vote on advancing a bipartisan infrastructure deal.

The U.S. social bond market is in its infancy, but there is huge potential for the public sector to contribute to the growth of this market, a CBI report said.