COSPONSORS

Speaker:

Alphecca Muttardy is a former International Monetary Fund Senior Economist. She is the chief economic advisor of the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank. She has given expert testimony in dozens of state legislatures and city and county councils across the nation on the proposed national infrastructure bank.

Speakers: 

Mayor Andy Schor, Advisory Board, US Conference of Mayors, Lansing, MI

Michelle Deatrick, Chair, DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis & Vice President, AFL-CIO, Huron Valley Area Labor Fed, MI

Senator Louis DiPalma, Co-chair Budget Committee, NCSL, Middletown, RI

Mayor Bryan Kennedy, Chair, Democratic Municipal Officials, Glendale, WI

Alphecca Muttardy, former Senior Economist, IMF, Fairfax, VA

Zvonko Blazevski, Legislative Director, Rep. Donavan McKinney, Democratic nominee, US Congress, 13th District, Detroit, MI

Representative Pamelya Herndon, Sponsor NAACP Resolution, Albuquerque, NM

Assemblywoman Joanne Simon, Sponsor NCSL Resolution, Brooklyn, NY

Moderator: Randolph Voller, former Mayor, Pittsboro, President, Orange-Chatham Association of Realtors, Pittsboro, NC

Speakers: 

U.S. Rep. Gabe Amo, Pawtucket, 1st CD, RI

U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas, Lake Oswego, 6th CD, OR

U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner, Providence, 2nd CD, RI

Mayor Lacey Beaty, Beaverton, OR

Alphecca Muttardy, former Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund, Fairfax, VA

Rep. Kathleen Cates, Rio Rancho, NM

Asw. Joanne Simon, Brooklyn, NY

Rep. Julie Brixie, Okemos, MI

Rep. Renee Price, Hillsborough, NC

D. Karen Wilkerson, Chair, Texas Rural Democratic Caucus, Tyler, TX

Carroll Fife, Oakland City Councilwoman, Oakland, CA

Ramona Ferreyra, Public Housing Advocate, New York, NY

Moderator: Jack Hanna, former Treasurer and Chair, Pennsylvania Democratic Party, Indiana, PA

Speakers:

Dr. J.H. Cullum Clark is the director of the Bush Institute-Southern Methodist University Economic Growth Initiative, where he manages the partnership between the university’s department of economics and the Bush Institute. He is also an adjunct professor of economics at Southern Methodist University. His chief research interests are macroeconomic policy, economic geography, urban economics, and modern economic history. 

Steven Fenberg has written extensively about the federal government’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the nation’s indispensable infrastructure bank that served the nation during the Great Depression and World War II. Fenberg is the executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning documentary Brother, Can You Spare a Billion, narrated by Walter Cronkite and broadcast nationally on PBS. He is also the author of Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good, a comprehensive, award-winning examination of the RFC and its Chairman Jesse Jones. 

Alphecca Muttardy is a former International Monetary Fund Senior Economist. She is the chief economic advisor of the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank. She has given expert testimony in dozens of state legislatures and city and county councils across the nation on the proposed national infrastructure bank.

Moderator: Hon. Randolph Voller, former Mayor of Pittsboro, North Carolina, and President of the Orange and Chatham Counties Association of Realtors. 

Speakers:

Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-IL-07), House Ways and Means, Chicago, IL

Congressman Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-02), House Committee on Agriculture, Las Cruces, NM

Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury (D-NM-01), House Committee on Natural Resources,  House Committee on Oversight, Ranking member on DOGE Subcommittee, Albuquerque, NM 

Congressman Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL-4), House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Chicago, IL 

Alphecca Muttardy, former Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund, Lead Economist H.R.5356 National Infrastructure Bank, Fairfax, VA

Dr. Bryan Kennedy, PH.D., Mayor of Glendale, Vice-Chair, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, and National President Democratic Municipal Officials (DMO), Glendale, WI

Brian Sullivan, Treasurer, Snohomish County, Vice-Chair, the National Association of Counties Transportation Committee (NACo), Mukilteo, WA

Mayor Lacey Beaty, Beaverton, Advisory Board, US Conference of Mayors, Beaverton, OR

Rep. Pamelya Herndon, Esq., New Mexico House of Representatives, Chair, Albuquerque Branch NAACP, Albuquerque, NM

Dr. Chao Wu, Ph.D., Maryland House of Delegates, Howard County Board of Education, Columbia, MD

Susie Shannon, Policy Director, Housing is a Human Right, Housing Advocate for Low-Income Communities, Chair, DNC Poverty Council, Los Angeles, CA 

Grant Welch, Political/Legislative Director, Communication Workers of America North Carolina, Vice-Pres. NC AFL-CIO, Sanford, NC

Justin Shore, President, Clearwater City Council, Member, Sedgwick County Extension Executive Board, Clearwater, KS

Virginia Ballou, Gini Ballou, Western Regional Director, National Federation of Democratic Women, former Chair, Planning & Zoning Commission of Hailey, ID,  Boise, ID

Moderator: Hon. Randolph Voller, former Mayor of Pittsboro, President, Orange/Chatham Counties Association of Realtors, Pittsboro, NC

Speakers:

Alphecca Muttardy, former Senior Economist, International Monetary, Fairfax, VA

Donald Siefkes, MIT, B.S., Chemical Engineering; University of Michigan, MBA; former Executive,

General Motors Design, San Leandro, CA

James Sved, Award-winning Architectural Preservationist, University Lecturer, Malibu, CA

Moderator: Brian Sullivan, Treasurer, Snohomish County, WA; Vice-Chair, National Association of

Counties Transportation Steering Committee, Mukilteo, WA

Money for Projects

Making the Case for the Bank