Infrastructure

The $304.5 billion highway section might pave the way for further bipartisan agreement on a wide-ranging infrastructure package.

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The Senate highway bill proposes a national pilot program for a motor vehicle per-mile user fee.

Alex Elegudin revealed confidential information to a paratransit vendor during a competitive bidding process, according to Carolyn Pokorny's office.

Reinstatement of tax-exempt advance refunding bonds appears to have the broadest support because of its nearly universal impact on state and local issuers as well as nonprofits.

Bondholders tend to insist projects be well maintained, a potential advantage.

With the heavily traveled Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River closed for repairs, Arkansas and Tennessee are seeking federal aid to cover the cost.

The bulk of $743 billion in improvements needed to alleviate climate risk and aging infrastructure would be borne by the utilities, a rating agency says.

Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the committee chairman, also called for reviving direct-pay Build America Bonds.

A favorable response would enable pre-construction work for the long-awaited $11.6 billion upgrade of New Jersey-New York train tunnels.

President Biden met Wednesday with top Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to discuss a bipartisan way forward on this issue.

The White House and a bipartisan cadre of lawmakers appear committed to getting infrastructure, including top muni market lobbying goals, achieved.

The underwriter is no longer engaged with the state's plan to build prisons to be owned by private operator CoreCivic Inc.

The state has allocated $1.3 billion over three years to repair and replace 163 buildings, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner reported.

An increase to $30 billion from $15 billion on the PAB allotment overseen by the Department of Transportation was one suggestion a House panel heard Thursday.

Public finance groups hope that the Biden administration will show the same support for tax-exempt bonds that House Democrats do.

The bonds would include a subsidy rate of 28% and would be exempt from sequestration.

Though Republicans and Democrats are far apart on the price tag, there is agreement on the need to invest in physical infrastructure and the need to pay for it.

A group of GOP senators is working to put together a more traditional infrastructure bill that would range from $600 to $800 billion dollars.

Anticipating a flood of funding from President Biden's infrastructure plan, states are positioning for an expansion of broadband to rural and underserved areas.