New push for infrastructure funding

New push for infrastructure funding in US jobs bill | Reuters:

Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:12pm EST
Reuters

by Lisa Lambert and John Crawley

"...Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell planned to push top White House economic advisers on Thursday to embrace the creation of a national infrastructure bank, an independent institution that would finance capital works projects.

Rendell told Reuters in an interview that a coalition of supporters that include transportation trade associations are pushing for the bank proposal to be included in the legislative package."

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