Advocacy
FY2025 Appropriations
We are tracking the status of FY2025 appropriations, where things stand, and what it all means for bond lawyers.
Advocacy Town Hall 2025
Member-exclusive discussion and update on NABL’s advocacy priorities going into 2025.
Preparing for the 119th Congress
What can and should municipal market participants do today to help prepare for tax reform next year?
Recapping the Elections 2024
Elections and the municipal bond market. Who won, what do we know, and why does it matter?
Response to the Proposed FDTA Joint Standards
Comments in response to the joint data standards proposed by several financial regulators per the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA).
Joint Statement on “Tax Tools for Local Economic Development”
A statement for the record from the Public Finance Network (PFN) in response to the July 30, 2024 Senate Finance Committee hearing.
2024 Presidential Election: Where They Stand on Munis
Neither candidate’s policy platform offers many details on municipal bonds, but we still have some ideas.
Agencies Release FDTA Proposed Joint Rule
While not final, the FDIC’s draft proposed rule offers insights into the work of covered agencies to implement the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA).
Judicial Watch 2024: Admin Power and Establishment Clause Cases
A pair of recent SCOTUS rulings could reshape agency rulemaking and enforcement powers, and a case out of Oklahoma could be the next front in establishment clause questions.
DEA Rescheduling of Marijuana
Regulators have proposed moving marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug. What do we know and what do we not know?
Requests for 2024-2025 IRS Priority Guidance Plan
Requested items for inclusion on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) 2024-2025 Priority Guidance Plan.
LIFT Act Reintroduced in 118th Congress
The three-prong bill would restore tax-exempt advance refunding bonds, modernize the small borrower’s exemption, and implement a new direct pay bond program.