An ongoing political battle between the Obama administration and Congress over construction of the budget-busting Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina heated up after Oct. 3, when Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is suspending its participation in the international treaty governing plutonium disposition that served as the project’s impetus.

House bill includes amendment providing $170 million to fix Flint, Mich., drinking water system.

Four months into the state-ordered shutdown of hundreds of millions of dollars of road and rail projects in New Jersey amid political bickering over funding, owners, contractors and workers scramble for solutions to salvage a fast-disappearing construction season.