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By Heather Anderson |
May 7, 2012
Even after news that a vote on S. 2231 won’t happen as quickly as hoped, credit union trade associations say they aren’t pursuing a Plan B to promote legislation that would raise the member business lending cap to 27.5% of assets.
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By Heather Anderson |
May 4, 2012
Lawmakers stuck between rock and hard place as lending cap bill languishes. This from the May 9 print edition of Credit Union Times.
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By Heather Anderson |
April 24, 2012
There’s a saying on Capitol Hill that Congress works in two time frames: now, and not now.
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By Heather Anderson |
April 23, 2012
CUNA unfazed by legislative delay.
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By Claude R. Marx |
April 13, 2011
A California Republican and New York Democrat were preparing to introduce a member business lending cap bill similar to an existing Senate measure.
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By Claude R. Marx |
April 13, 2011
Efforts to delay the implementation of the Federal Reserve’s debit interchange rule continued on Capitol Hill and at the grassroots level last week.
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By Claude R. Marx |
April 8, 2011
Three co-sponsors so far have joined the two original sponsors of the House member business loan cap bill, a companion to a Senate bill.
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By Claude R. Marx |
April 6, 2011
WASHINGTON - The Senate’s No. 3 Democrat said today there is a “decent’’ chance his chamber will pass Sen. Mark Udall’s bill to raise the cap on member business lending to as much as 27.5% of assets.
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By Claude R. Marx |
March 16, 2011
Here we go again.
Saying that it would “expand the options for small businesses at no expense to taxpayers,” Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) last week reintroduced a measure to raise the cap on member business lending from 12.25% of assets to as much as 27.5% of assets.
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By Claude R. Marx |
June 10, 2010
The issue of regulating interchange fees will be one of the topics lawmakers have to deal with when the House-Senate conference committee meets today to reconcile the differences between the financial reform bills passed by both chambers.
